Cereal Soup
“Cereal is a soup.”
Wild stares at Four. Would the timeline continue if he killed the smith on the spot? It might be worth it to find out.
“Cereal,” he says, “is not a soup. Soup is soup. I make enough of it I should know.”
“It’s soup! It’s liquid with stuff in in!”
“No, that’s wrong!”
“Chili is soup,” Four points out.
Wild throws his hands up at this. “Chili is chili! Not soup!”
“It’s in the soup family!”
Fine. If that’s how Four wants to play it. He should have learned not to test Wild after the tomato cake incident. “Okay, then by your standards, yogurt is soup.”
Four squints, likely looking for the trap. “Explain.”
“It comes in a bowl with stuff in it. And, like chili, it’s thick.”
“Then…” The smith chews over the words, then nods. “Yeah. Yogurt is soup then.”
“Perfect. I was going to make soup for dinner. I’m sure you will enjoy some yogurt.”
“That’s not a dinner food!”
“You should have thought of that when you said cereal was a soup!”
From the side, Sky leans over to Warriors. “Think we’re going to be eating weird stuff for another week?”
“I’ll see if I can bribe Wild into making us real food on the side.”
Next to them, Twilight slumps. “I just want to eat a potato again.”
“Cereal is a soup! Breakfast soup!”
“There’s no such thing as breakfast soup!”
The three boys settle in to watch the debate. If nothing else, it’s entertaining, even if they have to eat the fallout.
