Chapter 16: Reason To Change
Nick considered breaking the sausage into three parts, but he was worried that the skin wouldn't rip and make a fool of him. Instead, he returned to the kitchen and cut it into three equal parts.
"I can fry it first, but..." He offered, but the family of three only had ears for the sausage. Nick gave up and handed over one piece to each of them. If they wanted it fried, they should have said something.
Kai swallowed his piece whole without even blinking. He continued staring at Nick as if waiting for more. It was like he was pretending he hadn't received anything.
Lora and Kavam were a little slower now that they had the sausage in their hands. They inspected it closely. They smelled it, touched it, and held it up under the sun.
"This-this is meat, right?" Lora asked after a few moments.
"Yes. I think this one is mostly pork minced up with spices, put in a casing, and then pre-boiled. In the olden days, the casing was made with animal innards. It's a relatively simple process to make sausages at home if you have the tools and ingredients."
Nick wasn't sure if they were listening since they had moved on to tasting, and it seemed like they focused all of their attention on their taste buds, rendering their hearing almost nonexistent.
It didn't take long for them to forget that they were trying to understand why Kai wouldn't eat anything else. Both Lora and Kavam suddenly looked at their hands, surprised that the sausage was gone.
Instinctively, they wanted more.