Custard Apples

Conversation between Annaika (5), Jude (13) and I (22) [lol, yeah sure]. Interjected with much laughter and hilarity.

Me:

Doesn’t this custard apple look like a dragon’s egg?

Annaika:
What? No silly! It’s a fruit!

Me:

No see. Inside…. all this gooey stuff….. that’s dragon snot.

Annaika:

Eeeew. Dragon snot!...eeeeew!

Jude:

But that doesn’t make any sense. Why would there be snot inside the egg?

Me:

Actually the custard apple isnt the egg. It’s the black seeds that are the eggs. The custard apple is just pretending.

Jude:

That doesn’t make any sense either. Why would it pretend to be an egg if it already has eggs inside it?

Me:

See…the dragon lays its eggs and then collects them and with the help of snot makes a custard apple. Dragon hunters usually search for their eggs so that they can destroy the dragons. When they find these custard apple pretend eggs they break them open, eat them and throw the seeds away, thinking that they have destroyed the egg and had a good meal in the process when actually they are helping the  dragons hatch. Dragons are very smart you see..

Annaika:

What? That’s silly. Dragons don’t exist and custard apples are fruit.

Me:           

Really? Have you ever seen a custard apple tree?

Jude:

Yes, actually, I have.

Me:

That was a dragon pretending.