For a long moment, both boys stare at me, mouths agape. Finally, Erik begins to laugh and a moment later Soren joins in.

“Eat dirt?” Erik asks. “Is that the worst insult you can come up with?”

“I don’t think I’ve told someone to eat dirt since I was six years old,” Soren adds.

Now WHERE have I heard an exchange like this before???? Hmmmm.

OH YEAH.

You know, where Elle and Emmett are in the car? Where she calls him a butthead?

She [Dragonsbane] looks at me with narrowed eyes. “You’re playing a dangerous game,” she says.