It All Would Have Happened

Gaius has located a knife. 

Now to cut up the cabbage.

But what on?

What're you looking for? asks Surfing-with-Whales.

A flat surface, says Gaius. 

He looks around for something useful.

Aha! says Gaius. Terence, would you mind me using your skateboard?

Okay, says Terence. 

Gaius lifts the skateboard out of the pullalong.

What's he doing? asks Little Mystic.

He's having a go on my skateboard, says Terence.

With a cabbage? says Little Mystic.

They watch Gaius. 

Will he skate with the cabbage? 

No. He is putting it down.

He's letting the cabbage go first, says Terence.

A cabbage can't do it, says Little Mytic. It hasn't got legs.

Let's see what happens, says Terence.

Gaius kneels beside the skatebord and starts chopping.

With a knife!

Wah! cries Terence/

What's up? asks Surfing-with-Whales, looking up from the notes on the maugean skate.

Gaius is chopping my skateboard! says Terence.

He's chopping the cabbage, says Surfing-with-Whales. Weren't you listening?

I was listening to you, says Terence. How come you stopped?

A diagram, says Surfing-with-Whales. You can't read a diagram out loud.

You should have said, says Terence.

Yes, says Little Mystic, then none of this would have happened.

It all would have happened, says Surfing-with-Whales. But look at this. This is what a maugean skate looks like.

A starfish! says Terence. No, a fruitbat. No... an umbrella.

No way does it look like an umbrella, says Surfing-with-Whales, It looks like a stingray.

Yikes, says Terence.

Done! says Gaius. We'll use the skateboard for a table.

Cool, says Surfing-with-Whales. Wheel it over here. Can someone get my mum's cheese?

I assume you're not totally helpless, says Gaius.

Okay. Looks like Surfing-with-Whales will have to get his own cheese.

He stands up.

Tests his ankle.

It feels fine. 

He walks to his bicycle, and rummages in his backpack for the peppercorn cheddar.

He finds it and hands it to Gaius, who opens the packaging, shaves off a few slices, and crumbles them over the chopped cabbage.

Thereby creating a not-too-bad dinner.