The ships humans, after having ordered a larger than normal amount of supplies, decide to surprise their crewmates in the survey camp, by getting up extra early to fix a big, lovely, breakfast. -- Anon Guest
It's not easy to sleep when there's a predator trying to be quiet in the immediate vicinity. Humans count as predators. Surveyor Thait was finding this out, as she tried to sleep, at the hour that the team Humans were calling "Sparrow Fart". Humans. They had a name for everything.
Their efforts to be silent were slightly impeded by whispers of, "Shh!" or, "Keep it down."
The Humans were up to something. This was either going to be spectacularly heart-warming, or spectacularly horrifying. They were a species that wanted to pet every creature in existence, after all. Many had lost a hand to the effort. Therefore, to keep the dangerous apes safe, Thait achieved a simulation of consciousness and peeked outside.
They were messing around in the kitchen area of the camp, with the abundance of supplies they had brought along. They were noisily shushing each other in between a great deal of clattering amongst the equipment.
Thait at least pulled on the jumpsuit before exiting her shelter. "What the flakk are you cogniscents up to?"
"You see? You see?" Human Clare gestured in Thait's direction. "I told you that you were going to wake them up." Nevertheless, ze did attempt to be quieter with the metal bowls. Not that the effort was successful.
"That is not an answer," Thait sighed. "What are you doing?"
"It's my birthday," said Human Gaz. They had a container of rainbow particulates. "Rainbow dinosaur pancakes for everyone!"
Zed had a hand whisk and flour on their face. "We've been planning this for weeks. It's something everyone can enjoy."
"No complicated chemicals involved. We made triply sure."
Thait learned that the Rainbow Dinosaur Pancakes were not only shaped like dinosaurs, but also had little colourful dinosaurs in the dough. And the ice confection that came with it also bore a scattering of tiny saurian effigies.
Humans had spent a long time playing with sugar. They could do incredibly ridiculous things with it. Enjoyable things, certainly, but also peak ridiculousness.
Human Birthdays were the excuse to indulge in ridiculousness.
It was weirdly entertaining.
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