"Even if the stuffy old chairwoman of this and that and the other thing wouldn't know a party if it hit them upside the head," laughs Elodie.

She grins. "Are there very many stuffy old chairwomen?"

"Pretty much. I mean, 'Rana and I might even count if you do it by age and not attitude, I'm forty-eight and she's thirty something."

"Forty-eight isn't what I'd call old!"

"Older than teens today, so we count as stuffy, according to the internet." She's trying not to laugh again.

"On behalf of teenagers everywhere, I'm offended."

"Uh oh. We'd better try to fix that. Then again, maybe we can just appeal to the foodie bloggers. Get a subset back on our side."

"Ah, yes, the best way to win teenagers' hearts: their stomachs."

"We shoulda been recording! Next time we can try it. Internet fame could be fun, huh, 'Rana?"

She shrugs. "I'm not sure about that. We can try it and see how it goes."

"I bet if you did some actually instructional videos with possible cakes and mixed in some videos of your impossible ones you'd get lots of views."

"I bet I'd royally fail trying to bake a cake without any magic! Too used to it. Though that could be funny too."

"You could use magic but pretend you're not."

"You know they'll all say I am anyway, so..."

Ding! A timer goes off. "S- Uh, we better get back to work."

"Yeah."

Work!

And soon...

...They have an absolutely glorious cake. Elodie does most of the top decorations by magicking frosting into fanciful shapes and colors.

"Wow," she breathes once they can see the completed cake. "This is beautiful​. We should take pictures."

Elodie nods, smugly. "Do you have a camera?"

"I have a phone."

"...Right, phones have non-junk cameras now, I almost forgot."

She grins. "Yeah." Phone!

And pictures of the amazing cake!

Elodie cuts several pieces. Hilltop for Terrana, The edge of a stream for herself, and a corner of a house for Kaede.

Kaede will eat it! But just that, she is not much of a fan of sweet things.

"I guess I'll fridge what 'Rana and I don't eat and bring it to the meet tomorrow. I can re-heat stuff with minimal old-tasting-ness."

Grin. "People will love it, it's delicious."

"Ahhhh." Terrana cuts another slice of mountain. "Today was a good day. Thanks for welcoming me back to the land of the living, you two."