Location: Valentin's Estate - Kitchen With: @thebellamybarnes
The air is fragranced with sweet butter and pastry lingering with warm notes of caramel and toffee and nutty almonds. Valentin is somewhat stooped in front of one of the ovens as he is peering through the double wall of glass at the tray of thin cookies, butter bubbling and cresting within the mixture, in a few minutes they would be ready to be removed from the oven but for the moment he was watching them intently to ensure everything was going smoothly. He did not often bake cookies, never really had an occasion to and couldn't even recall the last time the made these particular ones, but Bellamy had requested both his time and cookies and he would happily oblige her.
"I advised the housekeeper to divert the tours away from the kitchen," he said to the petite vampire woman as this room generally was part of the tour since it was typically unused by him. While the estate itself was more or less open to the public through a guided tour, it was still his home and the staff knew to give him his privacy and not accidentally draw a throng of ten or so unsuspecting individuals into a room where he was occupying and disturb his time. It had happened on only one occasion and never again.
Similarly to when he had first arrived in Opulence in the townhouse that had belonged to her doctor boyfriend, Valentin was wearing a crisp shirt with the sleeves rolled up to the bend of his elbow, a dark grey waistcoat that made up his three piece suit -- the jacket of which was draped over the back of one of the chairs found at the long dining table opposite of the kitchen island.
