"…What."
"I was trying to help clean up the kitchen and thought I'd put the pill on the medicine shelf. But I grabbed a bar of peppermint soap instead.
Grandpa swallowed it a little, said it tasted like ' minty and sour,' and spent the next hour foaming at the mouth while giving everyone life advice."
Kael blinked. "And he survived?"
"Oh yeah," Cecilia said proudly. "He said it cleansed all the waste in the body having diarrhea."
Kael was laughing now. "I would pay to see that."
"My mother still hides the soaps from me," she added. "I'm banned from 'helping' with medicine."
They both laughed, and for a while, and the sun was almost set.
Then Cecilia slowed down a bit, her smile softening.
"Kael… can I ask something?"
He glanced at her. "Sure."
She looked ahead as she asked, "Why are you always alone?"
Kael blinked, caught off guard by the sudden shift in tone.
