The Sweet Breakfast

She offered a little smile to the boy as she sat next to him.

"I ordered some delicious food today." Aside from the one time, of course, he did not respond to her. But she talked to him as if he did, because...

She didn't have another strategy except to sit with him in silence. Which she'd been doing in the past and didn't seem to get a lot of movement.

"Have you ever had pancake, eggs, and bacon?"

No response. Of course there was not.

She'd been told he'd refused breakfast, but also...

She had no idea what kind of breakfast he'd been offered. If it was something like gruel or oats, maybe he wa just not enticed by it.

That's why she described for the kitchen what she wanted. The bacon and scrambled eggs were...pretty simple, obviously. Which was good. Because she couldn't just recipe up some magic bacon and se didn't trust them to have a breakfast sausage meat that a child would enjoy in the kitchen.