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[goodwillrising]

*We have a small boy making the most of the sunlight, sitting under a tree reading out loud to ... uh. Well, it doesn't look like there's anyone there. Not that this is stopping Will

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[tobethemiracle]

[set up so that only Will can hear/see/whatever him]

No, but I'm never good at riddles.

[goodwillrising]

It's a cook book.

'This, of course, accounts for eels being found in waters which were never suspected to contain them. This rambling disposition in the eel has long been known to naturalists, and, from the following lines, it seems to have been known to the ancients:

"Thus the mail'd tortoise and the wandering eel,
Oft to the neighbouring beach will silent steal."'

[tobethemiracle]

We need to get you a hobby.

[goodwillrising]

This doesn't count?

[tobethemiracle]

Actually doing the cooking would count. Reading from it? Not so much.

[goodwillrising]

I don't know, do you really want to try stewed eels that much?

[tobethemiracle]

I'm sure someone here does.

[goodwillrising]

Well, they're out of luck. I'm not looking for eels -- oh, Calf's Liver and Bacon!

[tobethemiracle]

You have got to be kidding.

[goodwillrising]

It's my favourite.

[tobethemiracle]

...to read or eat?

[goodwillrising]

... eat.

Are you vegetarian?

[tobethemiracle]

No.

[goodwillrising]

Just checking.

Try this one -- "this fish occupied a respectable rank among the piscine tribes, and it Britain it has at various periods stood high in public favour. It was the cause of the death of Henry I of England, who ate so much of them, that it brought on an attack of indigestion, which carried him off" -- I didn't know indigestion could do that.

[tobethemiracle]

Lamprey eels? And I think it was food poisoning.

[goodwillrising]

Got it.

That would make more sense. Especially if they used the same way to tell when fish was ready as they did meat.