The soft humming to an old lullaby bounced off the tile walls of the kitchen and into the hallway right outside the kitchen. The banging of pots and pans almost overpowered the soft humming, but the humming rang dear and true. It was a common lullaby that told of the strength of the first queen of the Moon Kingdom and her heroic deeds that brought the people of the Moon Kingdom together for the first time. A few people were in the kitchen, the head chef and his three lower ranking cooks, who were all preparing the evening meal. Preparing the desert was an older lady, the one who was humming the old lullaby of the first queen of the Moon Kingdom.

This elder lady had her silver hair wrapped up in a large bun near the top of her head. A few wisps of fading auburn colored hair had escaped the bun and the hair curled around her ears and next to her eyes. In her hands was a whisk that was beating a mixture for chocolate pudding. She had thrown in a few of the ingridients already, but not the cocoa. Her eyes darted back and forth between the bowl of pudding mixture and the oven, inside which sat the crust for her chocolate pie. Coci Nero wanted to cook the crust first before she put the pudding inside of the crust. Once that was finished she could work on the strawberry cake with molten chocolate inside. There would be delicious strawberries ontop forming the shape of the crescent moon.

The oven did not ring, but Coci knew that the crust was ready. She put her bowl of chocolate pudding mixture down and reached over for her oven mitts. Her oven mitts were homemade. She had taken an old quilt and an old towel and stiched it together to fit her hands. The old towel was the inside of the oven mitts, while the old quilt gave a lovely design to the outside of the oven mitts. Coci had also stitched a design of a baby chick on the thumbs of the oven mitt.

Coci pulled the oven door open and reached in to get the pie crust. The pie crust was set down on the countertop a few inches away from the bowl of pudding mixture. She put her gloves back where she had retrieved them from. Grabbing the cocoa, she poured it into the mixture and began to stir. She needed to allow the pie crust time to cool. Coci believed that thirty minutes would be enough time for the pie crust to cool and to chill the finished pudding mixture a bit. She needed that pudding to be cold so that she could put the thin layer of cream and blueberries and raspberries on top.