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Creativity
Her daughter's inquiry got Christine quite unprepared... but Erik would handle that. He was the creative one in the two of them, after all.
Fortunately, he wasn't composing; he wouldn't want her disturbing him during that, especially not with this specific question.
"She wants to know where babies come from," she said and placed her child's hand into her husband's while glaring at him meaningfully, then Christine left hurriedly.
Not exactly five minutes later the door of the parlor swung wide open and a positively upset Erik stormed in.
"Now go and tell her how the stork got inside you!"