Side Story 4.106 - Night Before

Johanis’ POV

Our house smelled like impending doom. Or possibly Lily’s new "training snack" experiment.

I opened the front door and immediately staggered backward as a strange smell slapped me in the face.

“Is that… is that burnt honey? Why does it smell like so much regret?”

Lily appeared from behind the kitchen counter with flour on her nose and what looked like melted gummy worms stuck to her shirt. “It’s combat pudding, Joha.” she declared, rather proudly if I might add.

“Combat pudding?” What on earth was that?

“High in sugar. High in hope. Low in structural integrity.”

“I feel like that last part’s important.”

“It is,” said Mama, sitting at the kitchen table with the calm of someone