Time: Post-"Secundus," pre-"Secundus 2," Alice's pregnancy with Chester Notes: I dunno -- I was in an "Alice and Victor having kids" mood, I read the TV Tropes article on wacky cravings, remembered something about some pregnant women liking charcoal (forget why), and this came out. The mustard thing is a callout to a 25 Foods prompt of the same name.
“Do you know what my aunt Susan told me the other day?” “No, what?” “That some pregnant women like to eat charcoal.” “. . .Charcoal? Really?” “Yes.” “. . .Why?” “She couldn’t tell me - she’d never gotten that craving. A friend of hers did.” “Charcoal. Isn’t that dangerous?” “You would think so. . .personally, I’m starting to believe that the moment you get pregnant, you are required to go insane.” “You’re not acting particularly mad.” “Probably because I’ve already gone insane. Thanks to eight years in Rutledge, I’m immune.” “I see. Certainly puts your love of mustard to shame, though.” “Hey, there’s nothing wrong with mustard.”
Notes: I dunno -- I was in an "Alice and Victor having kids" mood, I read the TV Tropes article on wacky cravings, remembered something about some pregnant women liking charcoal (forget why), and this came out. The mustard thing is a callout to a 25 Foods prompt of the same name.
“Do you know what my aunt Susan told me the other day?”
“No, what?”
“That some pregnant women like to eat charcoal.”
“. . .Charcoal? Really?”
“Yes.”
“. . .Why?”
“She couldn’t tell me - she’d never gotten that craving. A friend of hers did.”
“Charcoal. Isn’t that dangerous?”
“You would think so. . .personally, I’m starting to believe that the moment you get pregnant, you are required to go insane.”
“You’re not acting particularly mad.”
“Probably because I’ve already gone insane. Thanks to eight years in Rutledge, I’m immune.”
“I see. Certainly puts your love of mustard to shame, though.”
“Hey, there’s nothing wrong with mustard.”
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