"But why?" Manai jokes, quoting the meme. 
Galaxian just says, with complete innocence, "I just think they would like it."
Somehow that answers the question and doesn't answer it at the same time. Weird.
"Okay. And was that you dittoing that?" Manai asks Laurie. "And just to be clear," she adds with a grin, "I don't know what to think if it was. But I won't judge. I hope."

"We could wish for the ingredients and put it together," Galaxian offers. His right eye is noticeably brighter than usual. "I'd just have to reference what actual gingerbread houses look like, along with the constitution of their ingredients, so the proportions are okay."
"In that case, we could just wish for the gingerbread house itself," Nagesh points out with a hearty laugh, though his amusement indicates that he understands why the others seem intent on constructing the house from the base up rather than just obtaining a finished product.

"That's true," he agrees.
"If we really needed to, we could just make a regular house and then size it up, like scaling an image," Manai adds after the exchange between Nagesh and Laurie. "Though we'd have to find a place to put it, of course. Like a room! I remember seeing a pretty big room around here somewhere."

"I guess that depends on if they'd eat it. The time frame would be tighter if they wanted to," Manai points out, twirling her finger around and around for emphasis for whatever reason. "Oh! And I guess that's assuming we'd be able to create an airtight container of the same size too. I think we'd need that for storage purposes."

"But wouldn't us entering the room let air in?" Manai asks with genuine curiosity. 
Fun fact: Galaxian hasn't breathed for the entire duration of this meeting, so he's just remembering that air exists. (:

"That makes sense," Manai immediately agrees. "Then I'll have to remember to not do that. Maybe we could wear hygienic clothing too, just to be safe. Like professional food preparers!"
"It would certainly not be ideal to get frosting on our hair," Chiyoko adds, though honestly she doesn't seem to be particularly bothered by the notion.

"But to tie this quality of hair would be a true pity," Nagesh counters with a handsome eyebrow raise and a not-so-subtle hair flip.

He pretends to promptly shrink from her gaze. "Then I suppose I will make an exception just this once," he relents with what must be his closest imitation of a resigned pout, though he keeps his hand near his hair as if to prove a point.
Manai is trying her hardest to discern whether her hair can even be tied in the first place. She can't really see it, though. She has a little grin on her face all the while.

The others just have their hair loose, with the exception of Chiyoko, who always has her hair up in some elaborate hairstyle. 
"Teacher, teacher," Manai exclaims to Laurie, "are you able to tie my hair? Is it too short?"

(For reference her actual hair length is a bit shorter than in the drawing xD I do not specialize in drawing her hair length correctly)

"I think a braid would make my head look inflated," Manai evaluates, flattening her hand against her face to achieve an exaggerated effect. "And it's important to look good while making a gingerbread house because..." She thinks hard on the subject. "We might make a photo album."
"A photo album," Galaxian parrots, with a tone that suggests he is 0.005 seconds away from getting distracted again if someone doesn't interrupt him.

Thank you, Laurie.
"Oh, so that's how it works," she replies with what seems to be (and is) genuine excitement at learning something new. "Yeah, my hair is kind of flat now that I pay more attention to it," she adds, fluffing it a bit with her hand. "I guess I thought that the braid would somehow be against the back of my head."
Nagesh agrees non-verbally, mostly since he's usually the one to help her cut her hair and knows pretty well how little attention she pays attention to it.

"Sounds good!" she accepts the other's offer with a happy smile. She doesn't mind others touching her hair, though in the first place most people probably don't think of doing it in the first place. "Then as long as we're good on keeping clean while we're doing the prep, then we just need to procure the ingredients? Or should we be doing something else first?"
"I would suggest establishing a date, time, and general plan," Chiyoko states lightly.

"I assume these events remain unscheduled?" Nagesh asks Galaxian, who nods.
"I usually just wait for weather that I think they would like," he explains. After a moment, he adds: "This time I was waiting for a thunderstorm. I think they'd like those."
"Would it be alright if we forecast for such weather, then?" the mage asks again, to which the deity nods again.
"Of course," he says, making some sort of movement with his hands to level out his shirt. "I understand that that's more practical."
"Where would this weather forecast be centered?" Manai asks, raising her hand a bit as if doing so subconsciously. "I'm assuming outside of this space, so...would it be the place closest to here somehow?"
"Yep." The deity gives his affirmation again. "I believe the place would be in the Modern or Cyber Sect, but I'd have to check. Should I give you the coordinates?"
"Yes, please!"
While Galaxian teleports over to her and the two of them fuss over some numbers (which very much sound unnecessarily long), Chiyoko and Nagesh remain in their respective positions, seemingly content in their passitivity. After a while, though, Manai raises her voice a little to address the others again. "The next big storm's in 17 days."
Gotta love how they decided on a big storm. 
"It lasts almost the whole day," Galaxian adds besides her, as if that's particularly important.

"They don't have skin," Galaxian states, way too nonchalantly. With a smile no less.
...please, Galaxi, for the love of Forengard, add more context. ...he's not gonna though, huh.
"I believe that they exist in a state slightly different from most of us," Nagesh specifies, loosely steepling his fingers. "If I were to draw similarities, then perhaps they are closer to Galaxian than they are to us. Or Xolani, perhaps."
Chiyoko gives him a glance. Whatever its message translates to, he seems to get the meaning, since he further adds: "Physically they are more so an illusion than reality. I suppose I can phrase it like that."
Manai doesn't seem to be reacting too strongly. Either she is grappling with an urge to envision something inaccurate or just doesn't seem to perceive the descriptions given to them as being a big deal. Well, perhaps the reference to Galaxian helped. Even with his inconsistencies in appearance, he isn't too abnormal, after all. Perhaps that could be a defining factor in reacting to this new information.

()It's okay, I think I'll be bumping it up and deleting the bump post whenever I post on this one.=))

Galaxian's statement made Laurie's mind flash back to the images in an anatomy book she had seen. The diagrams for the musculatory and circulatory system would have filled her thoughts along with an attempt to figure out what a skinless person would look like (a HORRIFYING thought), but thankfulluy the others specifying a bit more helped her train of thought get back on track.
Not without her eyes lost in a stare at the nothing in front of her for a good five seconds, though.
"...I am ...not sure ...that I completely understand the concept right now," she confessed. "But I will not worry about the rain, then."