Lake Lewisia #1177

Buffet bread, they started calling it: so long they had to bring in another table to lay it out, stitched together with half a dozen doughs and twice as many fillings, it was a banquet of meats and cheeses and fruits around which the judges and the audience alike could crowd. The salamander, since apologized to and properly won over, had been critical in getting everything baked at once and now gnawed happily on a blackened length of crust. The little pockets of filling and secret layers to be pulled apart were akin to the poisoner’s art in so many ways, but Lennox found a new sort of satisfaction in watching it be blithely devoured.

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LL#1177