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"Whoo," says Bella, totaling up their points for this series of rounds. "Squeaked over fifty points."

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"Congratulations on your victory."

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"Thanks!"

Eventually Bella leads Elizabeth back to her house for a fish dinner.

"Fish is like the only thing he can cook," Bella mentions before letting them into the house.
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"Lucky for me I like it, then, huh?"

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"Yep!"

The house smells like fish, and garlic, and lemon.

In a shocking twist, fish tastes like fish, and garlic, and lemon.
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But presumably, before Elizabeth finds that part out for sure, she's going to be introduced to the person who caused it to be so!

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Yep!

"Dad, this is Elizabeth. Elizabeth, this is my dad."
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"Good to meet you, Elizabeth."

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"Hi," says Elizabeth. "I hear there's going to be fish!"

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"Mm-hm. Trout."

Elizabeth is presented with trout. Lemony garlicky fishy trout, crispy around the edges from the frying pan.
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Elizabeth approves of the trout.

"I approve of this fish."
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"Good, good."

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"I still don't understand why you can do fish but not - grilled cheese or spaghetti or something," giggles Bella.

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"When I pull a cheese out of a river maybe I'll grill it."

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...Elizabeth cracks up.

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Bella does too. "But - but why would that even make a difference, it's still the same thing, couldn't you make grocery store fish too?"

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"Couldn't say. Haven't tried it, never had that bad a string of luck."

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"Could you guess, though?"

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"Might be it'd go wrong for no reason. Spaghetti does."

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"There's always a reason for the spaghetti. You don't stir it or you don't get it all the way underwater or you let it boil over or you overcook it or you undercook it."

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"And yet - perfectly good at fish. It's a mystery."

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"He pulls it out of the river himself, that's clearly got something to do with it."

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"Maybe sometime when he goes out fishing, we should sneak upriver with a bunch of packages of spaghetti and little tiny rafts to put them on," she suggests.

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Bella laughs.

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Charlie does too.

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