01-14-2018, 01:38 PM
When Sam entered the tent he didn't notice decorations nor even the statue of reindeer. Mostly because he smelled and saw all that gingerbread. The young boy really loved gingerbread and there was a whole bunch of it. Yes, it was there to be decorated but they wouldn't really miss one... or seven. He saw a bunch of other kids helping with decorating, most of them were older but some were closer to his age. Normally he wouldn't come closer but he really wanted to eat at least one. He heard some old woman telling another boy to wash his hand before he could work with the food so he followed his example. Sam rushed to the old woman and took one as well to wipe his hands. "Thank you," he said quietly and joined the others.
He never actually tried to decorate gingerbread. Dad never had time to make them, so he usually just bought a bunch that was already finished, he was smart enough to quickly catch up, but wasn't exactly an artist. He just took one, that was supposed to be a person, filled his head with icing and quickly glanced if no grown-up was watching him, they seemed busy, so he bit the poor gingerbread human's head off. Then he ate the rest. Without blinking he picked up another, this one was looking like a tree and this time was actually trying to make it look nice. It went well for a moment before he used too much strength and just made a big blob of icing in the middle. Others around him were doing much better. One boy even made... some kind of evil rabbit? Sam didn't like scary things but it was looking really nice. His tree was quite bad in comparison and all efforts to make it better just made it worse.