“It is!” Carolena said. “Carnage built it for us. He and Murder. He chose this location in particular so that we’d be up in the eucalyptus trees.”
“Oh?” Avaleigh asked.
“They keep mosquitoes away,” Carolena explained.
“How clever!” Avaleigh said.
“I thought so, too. He is very clever, though, he’d prefer no one is aware of it,” Carolena said.
Avaleigh happened to catch Carnage’s eye when she glanced toward him and he grinned at her as he yanked open their pantry and took a container of eggs out of it.
“No! Do not dare!” Carolena exclaimed.
“My do eet!” Carnage said.
“No you do not do it. You crush the eggs every time. I can get it myself,” Carolena said.
Carnage shrugged and walked away. He plopped himself into a chair across from Boon and Daniel who were sitting on the sofa.
“You do that on purpose,” Boon accused quietly.
Carnage smiled at his son.
“So, you don’t keep your eggs in the refrigerator?” Angelle asked.
“If you don’t chill the eggs when they’re first taken from the hen, you can keep them at room temperature indefinitely. At the rate that we use them, they never last longer than a coupleof weeks anyway, but don’t wash them, which removes the protective barrier on them when you take them from the nest, you just brush them off and keep them at room temperature,” Carolena explained.
“I had no idea,” Angelle admitted.
“Most people that don’t have chickens have no idea. It’s really convenient to not have to refrigerate them if you live way out here.”
“I can see that,” Angelle said.
“If you wash them, or chill them, then they have to remain chilled.”
“Maybe we should get some chickens,” Angelle said thoughtfully.
Avaleigh and Carolena shared a secret smile at hearing Angelle speaking about getting chickens. It meant she was considering living in Whispers.
Angelle saw the look pass between them and realized what it was about. “I mean Boon. Maybe Boon should get some chickens.”
“Boon never has a shortage of food. In fact, he’s usually sharing most of his hunt with others in the community,” Carolena said.
“‘Es. Boon hunt goood,” Carnage said.
“That’s very generous of him,” Avaleigh said.
“He is very generous, and very kind, just like his father, but neither want it to be common knowledge.”
“Boon hunt D’agon,” Carnage said while starting to laugh.
Boon started chuckling.
“You hunted a Dragon?” Daniel asked, not quite sure why he’d be hunting a Dragon.
Boon nodded while still wearing a grin. “Carrik. I hunted him down and told him he could either do right by my sister, or I’d kill him. It was up to him.”
Carolena and Carnage were both chuckling by that time.
