shut her mouth like a clam because she hadn't meant to get involved. She was piling her scrambled egg into a little heap on her plate, then spreading it out again. She hardly put any of it in her mouth. Muko could see her out of the corner of his eye. He, on the other hand, was eating everything on his plate. 'We don't know how long we'll have to wait for the next meal,' he thought to himself, 'in this weird place. Why am I here anyway?'
Paidia and Gelio seemed to be on the same wavelength. They'd started chatting and laughing, mostly about the cold scrambled egg and cold toast. But they were also poking fun at Amartia and Muko's silence.
“I wonder if they've taken a vow of silence,” Paidia
quipped, cocking her head at her table companions.
“Well in that case she just broke it,” said Gelio through a
mouthful of egg, “when she said 'pre-ordained'!”
“I hadn't thought of that.” Paidia winked. “Say
something else wrong so that she has to correct you.” “Like what?”
“Oh I don't know. Something like 'procrastinate'.”