SHORT BREAD COOKIES
1 c. butter
1/2 c. brown sugar
2 c. flour
1/4 tsp. baking powder
1/4 tsp. salt
Cream sugar and butter together. Mix dry ingredients together and add to butter-sugar mixture. Roll to 1/2 inch thickness. Cut with cookie cutter. Bake for 15 to 20 minutes at 350C°.
Alyxa read the instructions again. The words were not staying with her. Perhaps she should have stuck with the making of fetches as tonight’s entertainment. Sighing, she looked at Amy, sitting on the counter top. Three nights it had been now, the waiting, without a sign or a Dream.
“Maybe they’ll be home tonight,” the little girl said hopefully.
“In time for cookies?” Alyxa queried, the sardonic edge in her voice lost on the child.
She measured out the right amount of butter on the scale in front of her, placed it on a saucer and slipped it into the microwave.
“Can I push the buttons?” Amy asked.
“10 seconds.”
Dutifully, Amy pressed set the time and watched as the microwave blurred into brief action. Alyxa turned to the flour. The world seemed to blur for a moment. The bag tipped over, spilling brilliantly white.
“Alyxa?” Amy asked, pushing the stop button as the microwave beeped at them.
“It’s nothing. Can you get the sugar from the pa- ” she caught sight then, of Morpheus’ unmistakable shape kneeling in the garden.
She forgot all about the cookies and rushed out.
“Morpheus!”
His blue hair was struggling to fade into a more acceptable black, the emerald eyes burned. His skin, marble pale was now also cold. He blinked at her slowly, as though realizing where he was.
“Are you alright?” she asked.
He pushed her hair from her neck n answer, and she felt him break the skin. He drank.
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