79 A family picture

Scarlet stayed in the kitchen, baking more oat meal bread with the rest of the oats in the bucket. When she was pulling the last loaf of bread out of the oven, Esong and Justin made a grand entrance, with Justin sitting on Esong's shoulders. 

"Well this is a first."  she commented. 

She had not seen father and son interacting intimately enough to have reached this point so quickly. Wasn't he the one that said something about boys not being coddled? 

"What can I do you for?" she asked with a drawl in her voice, trying to sound like the people she had met on earth from places like Texas. 

"Why are you talking like that?" Esong gave her a perplexed look. 

"Never mind, I was just trying something. What are you two doing in the house anyway? Are you done playing in the fields?" 

"I was not playing." Esong instantly replied. 

"I was working mummy." Justin added.