Page 86 of Culture and Curiosities
Snack surprise?
Dessert surprise?
Toy surprise?
Daddy tried to look like Team Boring and he tried to keep his thoughts quiet. “Let’s have bathtime and then you can see what I have for you.”
Naughty Daddy.
New shoes?
New toys?
Chocolate?
New camping toys?
Coloring book?
He didn’t even smile inside or out when I showed him my ideas.
“Okay, you’re all done. You’re just mashing it up now.” Daddy looked like he wanted to laugh but he pretended to be serious. “That looks…interesting.”
Little tato mountain with falling rocks.
“And dangerous.” He cocked his head. “Is that a rockslide?”
And we all fall down.
Boom.
Daddy shivered. “No, we are not falling down. You and I can both fly and we’re not going anywhere near mountains tall enough to fall down like that.”
I showed Daddy big mountains and small mountains as he cleaned up the mess. “Are those places that you’ve been or are you asking if we have anything like that on my world?”
Both.
I showed Daddy the excited punctuation as I put my thumb back in my mouth and he laughed in my head. “I think that means both, but no, we don’t have anything like that really. From what you’ve told me, your world has always been…geologically active.”
Daddy frowned and got huffy. “I need to practice the science words more, my mate.”
Gonna be a good helper for Daddy.
Gonna be a good reader for Daddy.
Gonna show Daddy all the science words.
“Well, my world was active in the past but that was a very long time ago from what I understand.” Daddy’s head had the portal in it but it had sand and big boulders all around it. “I need to double-check the dates, but no one alive has ever witnessedanythinglike the volcanos you showed me.”
We had lots of rocking and rolling and exploding.
Daddy shivered. “I would prefer not living near exploding mountains of fire and lava, my mate.”
Hmm.
I showed him the beachy one I saw on TV.
Daddy sighed. “Why do the prettiest places in your world end up being so dangerous?”
