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“How am I supposed to look at him without snickering now?” Caspian asked in between giggles. “You know one is going to slip out the first time I see him. What am I supposed to say if he asks why I’m laughing.”

“I just pretend he has something on his face and make like I’m wiping it off,” I admitted.

Mattias’ laughter rocked us harder as his dragon’s sides heaved.

“Now I’m…really gonna… laugh…,” Caspian rasped, struggling to catch his breath between words, “when I see him.”

You may not be the only one.

“He will find a way to make me pay.”

Not until after the egg comes.

“True. That will buy me a few months. A double egg. That’s how Kane and Hunter’s egg was, right?” I asked.

Aye. It means they are true mirror dragon twins, identical in every way, including abilities. The occurrence is extremely rare. Our boys are fraternal twins according to Raven and Amaru.

“It is not going to be fun birthing that egg is it?” I said, as realization hit. “That is the one Alex continues to curse Ionus about. You are going to owe me your weight in fluffernutter sandwiches for this.”

What in Poseidon’s hairy toes is a fluffernutter? I have never heard of such a creature.

Laughing in the cocoon of his wing, I needed time before I could answer, my brain conjuring up all sorts of images of my beloved sandwich as an actual woodland creature and a part of me longed to ask if Mattias had any colored pencils I could use to sketch the hilarious images. I never wanted to forget his question. It had to be a hybrid squirrel-nut-marshmallow creature with a big, bushy tail and a wide, squishy marshmallow body. Brown and white fur, the colors streaked along his body, he had to look like the inside of the sandwich.

“It’s peanut butter with marshmallow fluff,” I explained. “It’s like melted marshmallow in a jar. Super easy to carry. Canyon, Upalo and I would get a loaf of bread and turn it into fluffernutter sandwiches. That way we all carried a few in our backpacks and could eat it whenever we wanted to.”

I will find your marshmallow fluff and keep the cabinets stocked with it, Mattias declared.

“I can’t wait to try one,” Caspian said.

Perhaps giving them their own shelf in the pantry might be a better plan.

“Good idea, I don’t know if one cabinet could contain the sheer awesomeness of fluff, or satisfy my addiction to it,” I said. “Do you think you could find a chocolate-hazelnut spread? It’s like making a Reese’s s’more sandwich when you add the fluff and peanut butter.”

I’ll find it.

“All of that sounds delicious,” Caspian said. “But please stop talking about food. Now I’m hungry and want sweet treats too.”

“Damn, me too,” I said as my stomach rumbled.

Then let’s go get my mates and our eggs fed.

Chapter Fifteen

Caspian

“Sweet Neptune’s symphony,” I sighed, the nutty sweetness satisfying the babes in my belly. “This fluffernutter spread is amazing.”

“Here,” Kes handed me a piece of chocolate. “Add this to your next bite.”

What was it they’d said in our movie the other night? Oh yeah, “Foodgasmic.”

Kes nearly rolled off the couch laughing. “If you think this is good, just wait until we actually make s’mores.”

“Now I know what’s for dinner. Surf and turf with dragon fire toasted s’mores for dessert,” Mattias leaned over the back of the couch and licked my face. “Mmm, marshmallow is a delightful treat.” He picked us both up then sat down and nestled us against him. “Is this the yellow sponge man again? How is he not always expanded if he’s an underwater sponge?”

Great question for Kes. “It’s all pretend, mate. You’re taking it too literally.”

Great answer from Kes.