[...] "Mm... I agree. We can even try different spices combination depending it's for savoury or sugary things." He then clapped at her idea, immediately writing it down. "I like that ! I will look for models." He considered her suggestions, taping his pen against his lower lip. "A brown sugar milk tea flavored log with tapioca pearls would be great ! What about including the pearls in a crème brûlée insert ?"
Taavi blushed as Eirwen mentioned the rain, turning away to look at the windows to hide the pink dust on his cheeks and ears. The young woman was aware of his parentage but he had never told her about his powers more clearly. "Hum yes... That's weird. Maybe Susanoo's in a bad mood ?" The rain was subduing but even him jumped at the violent lightning crossing the sky, its deafening noise resonating with his sudden upset mood.
Eiwen listened intently to Taavi’s response, trusting him to write down important points they discussed, since taking notes while engaging in conversation was not her strength.
“Combining spices is great, maximum should be five ingredients I think, or else there could be conflict in the flavours, and we don’t want that, right?” As Taavi volunteered to seek models for the figure sugar decorations, Eirwen nodded her agreement, then waited for his feedback about her idea for the Christmas logs. When Taavi suggested adding tapioca pearls in the crème brûlée insert, Eirwen took a few seconds to think about it, then replied.
“That sounds interesting, I guess we should make a brown sugar milk tea flavour log with pearls outside and inside first, and see if it works. And…” She paused to look at the bags of different tapioca flours on the kitchen island, then turned back to add to what she was saying. “I also think that the tapioca pearls in the cream should not be sweetened, and they should be slightly firmer and less chewy than the pearls on the log’s surface, just to balance the sweetness and make the bites a bit…crunchier, you know what I mean?”
Eirwen had not paid that much attention to the rain outside, until she left a lighthearted comment about that, and suddenly Taavi seemed to avoid eye contact with her. She had heard Taavi introduce his god father, Huracan, and known that his supernatural ability was generally connected to storms and rain, which resembled part of Susanoo’s range of divine powers.
Through conversations with Susanoo during his visits to the bakery, Eirwen learned that while the Japanese god’s mood did have a connection with the weather, he was in total control of its manifestation, meaning rains and storms would only come if he allowed them to. So far, the god only let that happen a few times, and the storms he had brought were as intense as his true anger was.
Meanwhile, the rain outside was a lot more gentle. Once Taavi became shy, it ceased, and a crashing thunder immediately came to startle the light out of Eirwen. But that was a single lightning bolt, unlike the chains of lightning strikes that were Susanoo’s trademark homemade thunderstorms.
Eirwen waited for her heartbeats to calm down and her mind finished the analysis to talk to Taavi again. “You know, I like that rain more than the downpours Susanoo-ssama created,” she smiled kindly at him, her voice remaining calm and reassuring as she subtly tested her hypothesis, “I wonder if the rain can somehow continue for a while, it’s actually nice to hear it in the background while we’re baking, don’t you think?”
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