Alyth gave him a saucy grin, "You think you can improve a masterpiece, then I want a bite. Tessa, can you be a darling and give this one to our new patron? I want to see what James has been up to in the kitchen without me."<br/><br/>She grinned fully then, up for any challenge the young man thought he could pull with her. It was an old game between them. Would she cave to his tweaking her pie, or would she be stubborn, which rarely happened, and keep his magic out of her favored filling.<br/>