The world is a confusing place to live in!

my family wasn't this strict, but in some sects of buddhism you're not allowed to eat the "five pungent vegetables", onions garlic shallots leeks and umm chives i think, really any of those kind of vegetables. probably some monk ages ago was tired of onion farts stinking up the temple. anyways, one time my brother made a soup using all five of them. he said, "one sip of this, and you'll be reincarnated as a flea."

we've all been there

Herbert limping into the house after the Massacre finding Dan curled up on the couch sobbing clutching Meg’s bloody sweater, sitting down silently next to him prying the clothing from his hands and discarding it, pulling Dan against him who immediately clings hard, wracked by full-body sobs, face buried against Herbert’s throat, clutching him instead of that damned sweater, Herbert wrapping his hands around him, hands stroking up and down his back and carding through his hair, and smiling.