Choose The Best Face

The breakfast trolley comes by.

Gaius orders scrambled eggs and orange juice.

Denis Diderot orders a chocloate croissant and a coffee.

Terence's gecko shorts are now dry. 

Put these on, says Gaius. Then I can lower my tray.

Terence gets down off the armrest, with his shorts and his muffin.

He puts the muffin down on the floor.

The muffin is waiting to be trained as a parrot. 

Has Terence forgotten?

Terence takes off the frog jersey.

Careful! says Gaius. You're knocking the tray.

Terence drops the jersey and picks up his muffin.

He moves into the aisle with his gecko shorts and his muffin.

Maybe now! thinks the muffin.

Belle has seen Terence.

Terence! says Belle. Put those shorts on!

Hold my muffin, says Terence.

Belle takes the muffin.

Why do you have this? asks Belle.

I'm training it to be my new parrot, says Terence.

It's a muffin, says Belle. It can't be a parrot.

Unless, says Leonardo, it is given a face.

Terence likes Leonardo. He has good ideas.

Yes, says Terence. He'll get a face when I've put my shorts on.

The muffin is pleased. It is getting a face, which will make it a parrot.

Can you do it? asks Terence.

Let me do a few sketches, says Leonardo. Then you can choose the best face.

What about your breakfast, Leonardo? says Belle.

I'll skip breakfast, says Leonardo.

The trolley is here. Belle orders a yogurt and compote. She pulls down her tray.

She hands Terence his muffin. 

Now for the wait.

Terence has ducked under Belle's tray to let the breakfast trolley through.

He can see Leonardo sketching.

The muffin cannot.

I'll choose your face, says Terence.

I wish I could choose my face, thinks the muffin. 

The muffin need not worry. 

Leonardo is drawing parrot faces a muffin would like.

Not everyone has this ability.