37. Eyes
"Grandpa Halt, how come my eyes are brown and Danny's eyes are gray?"
"Because your parent's eyes are those colours."
"How come their eyes are that colour?" This time it was Danny who asked.
"Because they got it from their parents, who got it from their parents, and so on and so forth."
"Oh. Then, what about the people who didn't have any parents?" Asked Aurora.
Halt stifled a sigh. "When the world was new, the first people all had the same eye colour, black. When they spread out and moved to other places, their eyes changed according to the places; in the mountains, their eyes became blue, because they were close to the sky. The people in the valleys eyes became green, because of all of the grass. The eyes of the people by the stormy seas became gray, and the eyes of those in the dessert became brown. As people began to travel, they stayed in other lands, which is why people had different eyes colours now."
"Oh." And they started playing again.
Halt began to work again.
"Grandpa Halt?"
"...yeah?"
"Why is the sky blue?"
Halt narrowly avoided slamming his head on his table.
Done because all of the other stories I thought of with this theme were creepy...and Halt babysitting is funny and cute. And he did come up with an answer to the last question. It was 'Because blue is the lightest colour.'