14 Chapter 14: Stone Tea

"No."

I denied the tea with what I thought was a justified reason. It has real stones in it! Is that not reason enough? But when I told him so he just glared at me and said, "Are you discriminating against nature?"

"How is denying to drink Stone Tea going against nature?" I responded with a question of my own.

"Oh, this is interesting. You actually came up with a bad come back. And I thought that the Almighty would be better than those 3 annoying pests. Then again you are somewhat better. Life would have poured my tea in the lake and 'kindly asked' my dear fish to eat it."

Fish? I don't remember seeing any fish in the pond. I looked again. It still looks crystal clear, nothing at all in it.

"And Knowledge would totally ignore my suggestion and demand that I drink Avocado Tea for that is, in her opinion, the best tea that exists and will ever come into existence."

"Why avocados? Why not grapes or apples?"

"That's what I said! But do they listen? No!"

I am not sure if I should be happy or panicking at our seemingly coordinated thoughts.

"Anyway, you better not let Knowledge and Earth hear you say that."

"Why?" I asked curiously.

"'cause they'll trap you in an enlarged avocado and you have to eat your way out."

"Where would they even find an enlarged avocado?" I said, not believing him.

"In their avocado orchard, obviously! Or they could have Nature cast an enchantment and make a regular avocado grow bigger."

And there goes my hope of being around normal people. Why did this happen to me?

"And lastly, Time is the worst! He would reverse time to before I even made tea. And then he would take out his own-dare I say-COFFEE! It's an atrocity! It should not exist. Why!"

"What has coffee ever done to you?" I asked in an offended tone. I saw nothing wrong with the drink and I had a cup every morning.

"It burned me!" He screamed as if recalling a traumatic memory.

"Tea can burn you too!" I yelled back.

"Not as much as coffee!"

"Not the coffee I make."

And thus a great debate started.

...5 minutes ago in a place floating in the middle of nowhere...

I am so going to win that crystal, Atiri thought.

In the distance (just a few feet away really), Air was yelling something about a portal.

But as usual, everyone ignored him. After all, he was known for saying useless things. The game was more important. Who didn't want candy crystals?