Zervana by Brady Sanders

Author:Brady Sanders [Sanders, Brady]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-04-19T00:00:00+00:00

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The next half hour was frantic aboard Prosper. Steve had decided to wake up Stu and Macguffin, while Milo stayed in the bedroom with a sleeping Zee, and did everything in his power to keep her asleep a little longer.

In the next room, Steve was tearing up the kitchen.

Stu had begged his brother to bake a cake, and even though they mostly only had cereal and canned goods, Steve was trying his best. He took a bag of Prink Prinks for the base, mashing it all into a bowl along with milk and two old eggs. He kept stirring it until it had gone from gross in taste and appearance, to simply gross in taste. Then he flipped the bowl upside down on a plate and got every lamp or portable light in the ship working overtime to bake the abomination.

Lastly, he took a handful of VellO Mellows, picked out the marshmallows (the cereal was nearly half marshmallows, and half pulverized oat), and threw them atop the leaning tower of Prink. He had Stu look it over, to which Stu clapped his brother on the back and said, “That’ll do.” Together, they spelled out “HAPPY BIR-THDAY ZE-RVANA” out of raw sweet corn across three lines down.

The end product was a lumpy pink clump topped with corn and marshmallows. It had a strong egg stench.

Macguffin didn’t know what to do. He barely understood what the special occasion was. But Stu seemed to be obsessing over it, and even Espee seemed motivated, so he decided to put forth his best foot too. He rolled around the ship, looking for something impressive.

In the end, he scoured Steve's suitcase and found a red checkered handkerchief (Steve loved old school fashion), and some hairspray. He went to Espee with it, and although it took her a while to understand, eventually she realized that he wanted to get dressed up for the birthday party.

So when Steve was done baking the cake, he helped Espee fashion a little red suit for Macguffin and sprayed his hair thick. As a ball he looked odd - all spiffy and combed over like a drunk old man at a shotgun wedding. Though when Zervana would see him as a kitten, he would appear simply adorable. His fur was warped around his face, giving him bangs and accentuating his big eyes, and the red handkerchief on him looked comically like an oversized robe. Steve called him the best thing to happen to that handkerchief since allergy season.

Espee couldn’t decide what to do, but Stu reminded her they were about to land and she could buy something from the refueling station. “What, a decade-old hot dog?” Espee asked, and Stu conceded. But something there would have to do, so she sat in the driver’s seat and manually piloted them to their destination. The force of entry woke up Zervana, and when she asked where everyone was, Milo howled in pain to distract her.

As for Milo, it was Espee’s unexpected idea that the

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