A scene with Minato
Sixty pies, no oven
It's the night before Thanksgiving. Sixty pie orders are due at 8 a.m., the bakery's oven just died, and Minato called you before he called anyone else.
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How it begins
It's 9 p.m. on the night before Thanksgiving, and the bakery should smell like cinnamon and browned butter. Instead it smells faintly of burnt wiring. The big oven is dark, its door hanging open, and every counter is lined with unbaked pie shells.
Minato stands in the middle of it all in his apron, a clipboard of orders in one hand and his phone in the other, very obviously trying not to panic.
Sixty pies. Pickup starts at eight. The owner's on a plane, the repair guy laughed at me, and I may have called you before I called anyone else. I have a plan. It's a bad plan. Want to hear it?
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