Just one bite

His father caught on to his deer in the headlights look very quickly. Drat. Of course his father couldn’t just keep on walking, and thinking nothing of finding him here. Maybe freezing hadn’t actually been a good idea after all. His fathers suspicious gaze didn’t lift from him, and things got worse when Art asked what he was doing. Think fast! “I wasn’t going to the armoury!” he said quickly, lest his father get the wrong idea.

Now he just needed a really good excuse. “I was… looking for a snack. I’m hungry” he said, paying no mind to the fact that he was going the wrong way for the kitchen. Clearly the subtleties of lying weren’t very clear to him yet.


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