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Suddenly a very loud grumble from a very tiny tummy reminds them that they haven't broken their fast just yet.

"Sowwy..." moans Luna landing back on the chair. "Buff I's empty insiwde...." She gives them her best starving puppy look and groans. "I hungwy!!!!!!!"

It doesn't take long for her to set the table, nor to toast the bread. Slice by slice she carefully singes the surface, getting it just right, but when she gets to the end of the loaf she wants to do more, so she goes off looking through the supplies.

Finally, Kero finishes his omelets and fried potatoes, which he has created completely from scratch, chopping the ingredients just right, and turns about to find her surrounded by mounds of toasted bread.

"Did I makes enuff?" she asks worriedly.

Luna hangs her head, a tiny tear slipping from one eye. "You no say onwy one woff... You say towst bwead... so I twosted bwead.... wots of bwead... wots and wots of bwead.... I wuff helpin'... " Suddenly she runs from the cave, too upset to even fly.

"What's wrong with Luna?" asks Tes walking over from where she had finally got Nimbus down and asleep in his sling swing.

But Luna is nowhere to be seen and no matter how hard he looks, he can't seem to find her.

Nope, no Luna... no scent trace, no nothing... not even a hint of her aura. No matter where he looks he can't find her and thus learns a very hard lesson in parenting. Never ever give a small child a job without supervising them closely. especially one that has open ended parameters.

Many a flower garden has been flooded or vegetable picked well before it's time by well meaning youngsters who've been told to go pick some beans or water the daisies. They are so eager to please, so enamored by this rush of responsibility, they get carried away. He's also learned another, far sadder lesson. Watch what you say when correcting said child upon finding the outcome of the first lesson. Many times these children are struggling to help as best they can. And telling a very hungry dragon, no matter the size, to help fix food is inviting trouble. Their eyes are always bigger than their tummies.

(and... sad to say... she's not completely over all the emotional mess of before... just because a child acts fine, doesn't mean they are... her memory of her problems back at the keep are still there, very close to the surface...)

And gets an impression of something small and dark streaking for the skies. It's almost a head smack moment as he remembers the gate. Where does a small upset child go to hide from a daddy who sees everything and is quick to punish when one does something wrong? Some would cower in fear in the first spot they could find, true, but most would run away as far as they can and Luna, having an easily accessible portal back to her box, had been quick to take advantage of it.

Casting his all seeing eye back even further, he finds her, on her bed, buried beneath her pillow, with only the tip of her quivering tail peeking out.

Sobbing she buries her head into his shirt and that is when he learns the hard way that black dragon tears are more than a touch acidic.

Finally she begins to calm down, only to start anew as she sees what her tears have done to him.

"I sowwy... I sowwy... I sowwy.... I no mean to huwt you.... Sowwy..." she moans trying to wipe the trears from his skin, only her renewed tears and efforts only serve to make the burns even larger.