If a little stupid kid asked to go to the restroom one. More. Time, Zavid's head was going to explode. They kept trying to escape. If he had to turn into a manticore and carry them in his mouth, he will do it. He. Will. Askira was the worst. Trying to throw knives at him. The nerve.

Zavid was currently having a wrestling match with Ty, who was trying her hardest to get away. Needless to say, he was infuriated. He held up Ty and tossed her on to one of the cushions.

"If one of you little brats tries to escape one more time," Zavid hissed, losing his cool. "I will throw you in the Box with Askira." At hearing that, Askira glared at everyone, sneering and cracking her tiny knuckles.

Josephine scoffed. Zavid glared at her. "What was that?"

Josephine shrugged, acting innocent. "Young lady!" Zavid snarled. "Do you want to be in the Box?" Josephine rolled her eyes, shaking her head.

Zavid nearly screamed when Danny appeared. Zavid picked up the child and plopped him on to a cushion. "Hi!" Ty squeaked.

"Hi," Danny murmured shyly, smiling.

"Danny, let me tell you the rules," Zavid said. "No trying to escape. I've got a bunch of annoying little kids to deal with already. And if you try to escape even once, you are going in the Box. Got it?"

Danny nodded quickly, staring at him with wide eyes. Zavid sighed. "Sorry, I'm not usually like this. This is just really stressf-OH COME ON!" He wailed sorrowfully when Aithne appeared. "Nooooooooooooo. Whyyyyyyyyyyyy?"

Holding back frustrated tears, he set Aithne in the pen. Ben presented her with the Lego Trojan horse. "What do you think of dis?"

Her eyes widened. "Ooh! I like it!"

Willow tapped Aithne and gestured to her rainbow pyramid. "Ooh!" Aithne exclaimed.

"Do you wanna know how is so preety?" Willow asked. Aithne nodded. Ben sat down next to the two girls. "Well," Willow started. "I sing somewhewe ova the rainbow."

Zavid listened to the kids for thirty minutes, assuming that no more would be coming at the time. He was wrong. Nesia and Adira appeared at the same time. The poor man felt like ripping the hair out of his scalp. Inhaling sharply, he put them both in the pen, repeating the same thing he had told Danny.

After a few more minutes, Ben, Aithne, and Willow started singing Somewhere Over the Rainbow. They kept repeating the song over and over and over. Nesia started to get irritated. "Be quiet!" He shouted, kicking Ben's Trojan horse and destroying it.

"Neeza!" Adira exclaimed. And then, chaos reigned. Zavid put earplugs in, grabbing plastic handcuffs and securing them on Nesia's wrists, placing him in the Box. Askira snarled at the new prisoner.

Zavid's earplugs didn't work. He could still hear the horribly loud screaming and crying. This was cruel and unusual punishment.

"Neeza! Why you did that?" Adira shouted at her friend, crying. Nesia didn't respond, having a staring contest with Askira. Adira clenched her fists, stamping her foot. She ran over to Ben, Aithne, and Willow, furiously trying to rebuild the Trojan horse. "No crying!" She squeaked. "Is okay!"

Aithne let out a scared scream when a spider crawled on her leg. The screaming became worse. Zavid leaned over, swatting the spider off her leg and squishing it. After an hour and a half, everyone had finally stopped crying. Although it didn't look as good As Ben's, Adira had rebuilt the Trojan horse as best as she could.

"Thank you," Ben sniffled. "Meanie!" He shouted at Nesia.

Nesia's lip curled, but he didn't respond. Josephine scowled. "You all annoying."

"You are, too, Josephine," Zavid snapped.

"And so are you," Josephine retorted.

Zavid grabbed plastic handcuffs. Although he didn't put her in the Box, he put the handcuffs on her. She didn't like that. "Take them off!"

Zavid shook his head. Josephine's face turned red. "Ugh. They're annoying."

"Don't care," Zavid said shortly.

"You're mean."

"No, I'm not. I've been punished to deal with children. I don't like taking care of little kids."

"So you don't like me?"

"I like older you. A lot. Not this you."

"Grown-ups are mean."

Zavid didn't respond.

Josephine started bouncing up and down. "Grown-ups are mean, grown-ups are mean," she taunted in a sing-song voice. After about ten minutes of this, Zavid's last nerve snapped. He yanked her out of the pen and placed her in the Box.

"Is usually like you?" Willow questioned.

Zavid sighed, shaking his head. "No. I don't know what's wrong with me."

"Is okay," Adira reassured, smiling. Zavid smiled softly.

Maybe not all kids are bad.