“...I like imagining a circumstance where I could walk away and tell King Etristo to eat dirt.”
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?
I cackled.










