Possibly vague spoilers? If you’re familiar with the canon, this might be a bit disturbing.
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Chocolate sluices down the roads like mud, peppermints form windows in gingerbread houses with caramel-slated roofs, people — humans and elves and dwarves and orcs, all shaped from gummies — stand in the streets and sit inside houses and on chocolate carriages halted mid-motion, licorice birds perch in trees of fudge and cotton candy — no matter where he looks, Taako finds some new detail to fascinate him; it’s an entire life-sized model of confectionary art, sitting in the middle of nowhere, and he has never seen its like.
“What is this place?” Sazed wonders, open-mouthed.
“Who knows — and who cares?” Taako replies with a flippant shrug of his shoulder, hiding his own curiosity beneath carelessness — though that doesn’t stop him from breaking off a piece to taste.
The Adventure Zone Balance Arc - Taako, pre-canon
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Chocolate sluices down the roads like mud, peppermints form windows in gingerbread houses with caramel-slated roofs, people — humans and elves and dwarves and orcs, all shaped from gummies — stand in the streets and sit inside houses and on chocolate carriages halted mid-motion, licorice birds perch in trees of fudge and cotton candy — no matter where he looks, Taako finds some new detail to fascinate him; it’s an entire life-sized model of confectionary art, sitting in the middle of nowhere, and he has never seen its like.
“What is this place?” Sazed wonders, open-mouthed.
“Who knows — and who cares?” Taako replies with a flippant shrug of his shoulder, hiding his own curiosity beneath carelessness — though that doesn’t stop him from breaking off a piece to taste.