Submission (#6968) Approved

Total word count: 460
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Sienna shook her head back and forth as she looked over the banquet planning list.
Every year, someone contributed to a different dish in some way. That meant she had to help if she wanted to eat and enjoy. Theoretically, she could come without contributing anything, but... she knew that she'd get weird looks if she did that. Socially, she had to help.
There were a few people already coordinating making dishes together, but she was never one for cooperative work... she would probably want to make and bring something she made on her own. That meant she had to make sure it didn't seem like she was copying somebody else's idea.
Pumpkin pie, fall gourd soup... why was someone bringing a "spring salad" to the fall harvest banquet?
Eventually, she nodded in affirmation. It looked like nobody was bringing any savory sandwiches. She could put those together pretty easily, and then she'd be able to safely work through the banquet without any guilt...
She wrote her name quickly down on the list. Sienna - sandwiches. There. That way, she wouldn't make anyone else hesitate before deciding to bring sandwiches for themselves. The perfect opportunity.
Now, all she had to do was... actually make the things.
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Sienna fluttered about her home, trying to put together the perfect small, savory sandwiches.
She already had cheese ready to place on them, but... that was it. She couldn't just bring plain cheese sandwiches! That was ridiculous! Nobody would eat those.
What else could she use that fit the fall theme, and would work well with cheese? Her antennae twitched in frustration. She was just about to give up, when... what was that? The doorbell was ringing.
"Yoohoo! Sienna! You home?" Thistle's voice carried through into the room.
"I'll be right there..." Sienna replied, going over to open the door. "Hello. Why are you here?"
"I wanted to show off these!" Thistle held up some mushrooms - a little dirty, but still edible, from what it looked. "I've been trying to learn how to forage for these, since it's mushroom season!"
"...So these are safe to eat?" Sienna asked, examining them with curiosity.
"Yup! I mean... they should be. As long as I identified them correctly."
"Give me those-" Sienna quickly snatched up the mushrooms from Thistle's grasp.
"Wh- uh, okay-" Thistle said, flinching a little. "Could you tell me what you're gonna be using those for?"
"Sandwiches," Sienna said simply, as she ran the mushrooms under warm water to wash away the dirt. "Harvest banquet."
"Ooookay," Thistle said, pulling over a chair to watch Sienna put the meals together. "As long as I get one, I won't complain."
Good, Sienna thought.
She was going to make the best mushroom-cheese sandwiches the banquet had ever seen.