#fenixtj

“Nooooo!”

"We cannot allow that to happen!"

"We got your back, Ellie!" Ariel declares her support for their leader's charge

“We must rescue the churros. They cannot appreciate them. Not like we can!”

"mmmm" From the hallway

"Ahhhh-HA!" Ellie leaps around the corner.

Salma peeks around after her, holding... a large book in defense!

Ariel stamps her hooves "Treachery doers!"

And the boys , like 6 of them blink as the girls appear ... crumbs fall from the boys mouths, some have chocolate marks on their lips.

Apuch sucks in a gummy worm

"Churros!"

“No! It is not fair! You are so noisy! And you got the snacks.”

"Oh, we ate those" Aphuch says softly

"The snacks were GOOOD" Jack Flap says

“Not... all of them?”

Holger blushes

“tu también, Holger?” Sad.

Jack Flap says "Well, depends on what you mean, there was enough of these from Brogan... a third one for each boy"

"A... a secret BOY conspiracy?"

"with snacks?"

Holger is stunned 'No, we were.. it was a meeting for boys, we were hungry... It was not .."

“Secret snacks! How rude!”

He seems flustered as he realizes their secret meeting may have endangered his honor. Yet saying more, might also be dishonorable

Ariel eyes Jack "Wait, you have six more of those pretzel things? WIth the chocolate?"

"Five, they're too hard for aphuch so he has gummys..."

Is Jack's answer

A small furrow of her brow. Math? Ew.

"Holger's a growing boy, he needed lots of food" One nocker kid from Skyhook says

“He had grown plenty. Plenty tortuoso!” Devious!

Holger is blushing bright purple, and reaches to a side pack

and, carefully and lovingly in a napkin, he pulls out a churro. The LAST Churro. "I.." Mutter mumble "Saved his for you, Salma" He's looking at his feet and handing out.

"You DID?" Jack is aghast "Why? "

"Because churros are for burros. Salma always gets the last one."

Salma look... aghast. This isn’t how the detective stories work out. She is supposed to feel triumph... not this kinda-bad feeling.

Aphuch whispers with disgust "Domesticados" at looks at HOlger

Ellies GLARES at Aphuch.

"Si. Salma does... She is my amiga" The troll sets his jaw at the sluagh

She lifts her head high and states, “I do not like churros anymore. You must share it with your amigos.” Thinking of all the snacks they ate with Holger on guard just out of sight.

Sacrifice!

"No, Amiga" He says "You love the churro and I saved it for you. I am big enough to take a litle teasingg, Salma" Stubborn

It appears they have a pooka troll stubborn stand off!

Ellie has cowed Apauch

But she also noticed footsteps. Rosa!

She takes it, turning a bit rosy in the cheeks. “Better than churros is popcorn with cheese and Chili on it.” She says hopefully, loud enough to be heard. “Do you know the recipe?”

"Gonna be a lot of teasing actually" The nocker boy says. Jack has to agree

"You do not tease our caballero!"

A tug at her ears. “Teasing is bullying, and Holger is brave enough to withstand any.”

"That isn't nice." Foot-stamp.

The boys back up as Ellie flares