Emerald dug through forgotten mathoms, trying to find that one jar of carrots she knew she had hidden in the cellar.
"It is the last one, after all," she muttered to herself. Turning over pile after pile, she finally gave up. "Pa!" she called upstairs. "There isn't a scrap in this whole house!"
"Excellent, girl!" he shouted back. "Give us a good excuse to go to The Green Dragon!"
Emerald sighed. How had she known that was coming?
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If a kid asks where rain comes from, I think a cute thing to tell him is "God is crying." And if he asks why God is crying, another cute thing to tell him is "Probably because of something you did."
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