In the world there were combinations of things that existed that did not go well together at all. In fact, it almost seemed as though their only reason for existing was so that they could annoy everybody else.
Dads and crocs, teenagers and bubble gum. Kids and sugar. Those were terrible combinations. Almost everybody knew that. But as bad as they were, at most they were merely an annoyance. But the current combination that Ariel was facing with something else altogether. Zachariah Asher and madam Mo. Ariel had the poor luck of knowing both of them separately. They were not nice people.
