The bustling halls of the Time Balance Department hummed with the quiet whir of temporal machinery and the soft click of the heels of diligent Cookies. Coffee Candy Cookie clutched a stack of "Divergence Reports" chest, trying to recall Baguette Cookie's precise instructions for filing.

"Remember, Coffee Candy Cookie! Section Beta-7, sub-category Temporal Anomaly 3.2. Not Gamma," Welling Inkwell, perched on her shoulder, grumbled, its lid already half-open as if ready to scrawl a correction.

"I know, I know, Welling!" Coffee Candy Cookie whispered back, her brow furrowed in concentration as she navigated a corridor lined with filing cabinets that stretched endlessly. "Temporal Anomaly... 3.2..."