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14475 September Chapter 68: Kelloggs
Emmet wasn't sure when he woke up, finding himself still in the morning handcuffed to his bed and finding Lila sitting across from him, eating her own breakfast as if Emmet didn't even matter.
He blinked once and managed to get her attention with that one, minute movement.
She blinked back at him in reply and saw that she was wearing the same uniform as she had done before, and the same fuzzy slippers as she did before.
She sat with a book open, balanced against the sides of Emmet's legs, reading whatever was on those pages as she ate her breakfast from a bowl.
Cornflakes and milk.
Of all things, stupid cornflakes and milk.
Emmet expressed his negative opinion over her dietary choices by simply repeating back his mental spew that consisted of nothing but repititions of what she ate.
"Cornflakes and milk," he intoned to her, his face exasperated and aggravated.
Lila remained silent, not saying a single word or pausing in her con
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