[ SWEET BUN TRIO ] "Do you have a favorite?" She holds up a plate filled with the titular three buns, her finger pointing at each in turn. "They're all different flavors! And they're plated so prettily, too!" Moving the plate a bit closer to her in offering, Maria smiles. "Doesn't this little cascade of nuts look so pretty? Hee hee!"
She remembers eating them last year.
It shouldn't be notable she can also recall them as a standard dessert at the academy.
And yet it is she who remembers a quiet ballroom gathering leftovers for a breakfast in the storage room she hid away in.
With someone
It was a magical night and a blissful morning.
That memory should hurt.
It would likely under any other circumstance.
But tonight it's as if that hazy morning never came to an end.
"Yes they are quite charming, I believe. ? Are you offering to share?"
It's an assumption that could be taken the wrong way, but it's still natural enough that she chooses to voice it.
She makes the choice of which to take by process of elimination, the one with almond paste and powdered sugar holding it with a handkerchief.
The cherry one stood out more, and the cranberry and pecan one clearly grabbed the attention of the younger girl.
"I don't believe we know one another. I am Tine of House Freege, and who would you be?"