"Yeah, Smalls," Raiden agreed, "I'll whip us up some waffles while the cake's in the oven." Waffles, followed by cake? Sounded like a perfectly reasonable meal plan to Raiden, and also to his sugar gremlin baby brother. Kallias, who might have liked to eat a vegetable at some point, didn't know enough about what was going on to have any input.

At least, despite being a Spartan, he wasn't likely to put in a vote for black broth.

"It sucks that you can't stay long," he said to Kallias as he and Gray settled down at the table, "but I guess you'll want to get back to Elasus anyway, huh?"