[center][img]https://i.imgur.com/dsIa72w.png?1[/img][h2][color=9e0b0f]Lavinia[/color][/h2][/center]
[color=9e0b0f]“ZENIIIIIITTTHHHH!”[/color]

Smoke was wafting from the kitchen. Even without hearing the desperate shouts now echoing out into the main guild hall, it didn’t take a genius to guess the cause. Not half an hour before, Lavinia Lucardi had been seen waltzing towards the oven with a recipe book in hand, humming happily to herself. And as everyone was well aware, the blood mage only knew one recipe: [i]disaster.[/i]

[color=9e0b0f]“Zenith help I was trying to make cookies and now the oven’s on fire Zenith what do I do HEEEEEELLLLPPP!”[/color]

Many were no doubt mystified by Lavinia’s recent forays into the world of cooking, but it was clear that something in her had changed since her mission with the ANP. The truth was, after encountering the mad Avedis and going head-to-head against Obsidian Kite’s secret dark ops division (which she was dead certain those enemy mages had been), Lavinia had been left with a deep distrust of fancy new technologies and their shady inventors. Despite knowing that ANPs would likely soon become commonplace in food preparation across Fiore, the devilish villainess had resolved that she should learn to cook on her own, so that she could sustain herself without letting suspicious robots into her home to spy on her.

Unfortunately, her efforts thus far have proven… Less than fruitful. Setting the kitchen on fire was a delightfully evil deed on paper, but that was contingent on the fire being set [i]on purpose.[/i] Lighting up appliances by accident, on the other hand, was simply embarrassing.

[color=9e0b0f]“The oven won’t break if I spray blood on it, right? I’m going to try spraying blood on it!”[/color] Hopefully the cookies would at least be salvageable, though given that they looked like blackened husks right now her chances probably weren’t great.