Silver Creek penny dreadful

One topic to another.  Water to bones.  She found his level of curiousity cute and a good thing to.  Surely if he stayed the way he was, he would become wiser as he aged, with all the knowledge that he would get from not being afraid to just ask.

"Actually with a bone, you do this thing called gnawing.  Here, let me show you."  She began to gnaw on of the skull of the fish, showing Cortland how it was done, then she stopped, glancing at him.  "It actually feels pretty good and it's kinda fun in a way.  Do you want to try?"