S: “Espoir, It’s time for lunch”

E: “what did you make?”

S: “I made deer steak”

E: “Did you kill the baby again”

S: “I don’t shoot the babies”

E: “So the mommy?”

S: “no, I don’t shoot the mommies either”

E: “So the daddy?”

S: “Espoir, I don’t shoot them when they have kids.”

E: “But all deer have kids.”

S: “Sometimes the kids aren’t with the parent”

E: “So you secretly shoot the mommy.”

S: “Espoir, I did shoot the mommy.”

E: “Why did you shoot the mommy?”

S: “Because we need to eat”

E: “But it was a nice mommy”

S: “But we needed food”

E: “But I liked to look at the mommy.”

S: “Yes but the mommy is important to us.”

E: “Are you sure daddy?”

S: “Have I ever lied to you?”

E: “I think so, but I don’t know what about.”

S: “Espoir, I don’t lie to you unless I have to. Like when I go to work, I can’t tell you where”

E: “I wish you could”

S: “Why?”

E: “I worry about you!”

S: “Yeah but I always come home”

E: “Yeah, you do!”

S: “I love you”

E: “I love you too! Daddy?”

S: “Yes sweetie?”

E: “What if you didn’t come back?”

S: “Why are you thinking about that?”

E: “Because sometimes at the castle, the other little girls cry all day because their daddies didn’t come back.”

S: “Espoir, I always come back, I will never leave you.”

E: “But What if dad, what if you don’t come back?”

S: “Then You stay with Uncle Gavner.”

E: “I would?”

S: “Yes, and Uncle Gavner always takes care of you right?”

E: “Yeah! He gives me a lot of candy and food! Sometimes we go to the market and get those packets of flavored powder!”

S: “Wait, Gavner gives you those?”

E: “Yeah”

S: (I’m gonna have to talk to him about that) “I did not know that”

E: “Yeah!”

S: “Well do you thank him?”

E: “I always do Dad!”

S: “Well that’s good.”

E: “Dad, this is really good steak.”

S: “Thank you.”

E: “Too bad Bambi had to die for it.”

S: “Espoir, I do not kill Bambi.”

E: “The polkadotted one, that’s the one you shoot!”

S: “No, Espoir that’s the baby I don’t kill the babies.”

E: “Oh. I thought the babies had no dots”

S: “No, the babies had dots, mommas do not.”

E: “Oh”

S: “Yeah, I killed momma”

E: “well it’s sad you had to kill momma deer.”

S: “Yes, but she was okay with it.”

E: “She was?”

S: “Well how else are we going to eat?”

E: “I guess we wouldn’t”

S: “Exactly.”

E: “Okay”