Vert eventually decided she was being greedy enough with the ceral and put the box down. "Good morning, Rito," she said with a smile as she reached for the milk, pouring it on top of her breakfast with wild abandon. "How do you feel today?"

That was a loaded question if there ever was one. When she was eventually satisfied with the amount of milk available to dissolve the sugar in her cereal, she put that down too. By the time Rito answered she was probably shoveling Froot Loops into her mouth like nobody had taught her table manners.