#47: Banana Slug -At Ernies

Everyone was eating. Joshua was almost in awe of what the youngsters could eat, the wild combinations of food that they would eat was rather disconcerting, but mostly by how MUCH they could eat. They had to have hollow legs. Joshua was the youngest mage, was barely older than the kids he was chaperoning. He was the eldest of the bunch but not by much. He could easily remember being that age and able to do what they did. Well maybe, not exactly, not like Carl. Carl had just finished three, half pound burgers with Cheese Fries, Onion rings, chicken nuggets, two malts and a milkshake. He was reaching for the desert menu.

Joshua had never been able to eat like that, not even close.

Seriously Carl?

Carl was as so skinny that if he turned sideways and stuck out his tongue he’d look like a zipper. Tommy had to stand in one place twice in order to cast a shadow. Sally was so thin that she could hang glide using a Dorritto, Cody wasn’t much better and the other’s were much the same. There wasn’t a fat boy or a chubby girl among them. They were all much too active. They were all hyperactive as ferrets on speed and so full of energy that they almost vibrated in place, the lot of them.

They ate like a swarm of locusts too.

Everyone one of them had avatars which just made it more comical. Yvette, was the only Avatar that was self aware, the others were tele-operated puppets. The kids didn’t let that bother them. They were learning to use their Avatars very well. Ernie didn’t have much to do. The little dragons avatars retrieved napkins, silverware, and glasses of water quite well.

The rest were almost as bad, if no quiet. Ernie just smiled , took their money and kept on bringing food.