Chapter 32 - Everybody wants to be a cat

I was surprised that Madeline had taken us to a German restaurant. I was expecting Italian, or French, hell, possibly a sushi place based on her dress. But nope, she drove us down to a sizeable place named Knoedel and Kraut, or Dumplings and Kraut for people not versed in Central European cuisine, sat down, ordered herself a pint of beer and a wiener schnitzel, and let me and May pick what we wanted. The contrast of a brunette Jessica Rabbit chugging a beer out of a pint like it was her first drink of water in days was interesting. The moment she finished the beer, she slammed the pint down on the table with such force, I was worried she’d smash the glass!

“Okay, Lily, sweetheart, darling, baby girl, my delightful niece.” Madeline began, leaning forward on the desk a bit. “On a scale from Cronos to Zeus, how fucking shitty was Arthur at parenting?”