Dad: Here comes the Evil Charles-Eating Daddy!
Alice: No! [attacks with Lego] I am swinging this like this to stop the Evil Daddy.
Dad: But then the Evil Charles-Eating Daddy will starve!
Alice: OK.
[Alice’s guilt over her cruel indifference catches up with her]
Alice: You could eat Corwin!
Charles and Alice had been playing with the blocks and Charles had been lecturing Alice about having to feed and care for her “workers” (the wood colored small blocks) and how they would die if she didn’t do that at least once a week. Naturally, I wanted to find out how she’d resolve that dilemma…