"Thank you! They're one of my best baking skills."
He'd gotten the recipe from his mum's mother, and for the sake of family tradition and connectedness, he's taken up being the one to make them every year. The better to make sure there's several people in the family who know it.
"I hope you don't mind if they're a good half of your gift? I wasn't sure who to be buying for... though I did get you something, a little more than a card."
He rambles, a little defensively, as he comes out of the kitchen with the damp cloth left behind and no makeup on his face. For Sadie, who hasn't seen him in person for a few months, there's differences.
They wouldn't have been obvious on the network's videos, or any more ordinary photos put up on social media - he's been wearing a bit of makeup when he shows his face outside, touching up the shadows under his eyes and cheekbones and such, downplaying the thinness. But today, a day in the flat hiding out from the snow, there's none of that.
i also forgot to track the thread, whoops
He'd gotten the recipe from his mum's mother, and for the sake of family tradition and connectedness, he's taken up being the one to make them every year. The better to make sure there's several people in the family who know it.
"I hope you don't mind if they're a good half of your gift? I wasn't sure who to be buying for... though I did get you something, a little more than a card."
He rambles, a little defensively, as he comes out of the kitchen with the damp cloth left behind and no makeup on his face. For Sadie, who hasn't seen him in person for a few months, there's differences.
They wouldn't have been obvious on the network's videos, or any more ordinary photos put up on social media - he's been wearing a bit of makeup when he shows his face outside, touching up the shadows under his eyes and cheekbones and such, downplaying the thinness. But today, a day in the flat hiding out from the snow, there's none of that.