For the next hour, my tiny house remained just as noisy as it had been since everyone arrived. At some point, I had completely given up trying to organize everyone.
Alpheus and Alfonso somehow convinced Egypt that Alfonso was a dinosaur expert despite clearly making everything up.
"No, no," Alfonso said confidently while sitting cross-legged on the floor. "Barney turned purple because he accidentally fell into a giant bucket of grape juice."
Egypt's eyes widened dramatically.
"Really?!"
"Absolutely."
"That's not true."
Paris didn't even bother looking up from her drawing.
Alfonso looked offended.
"Excuse me, little artist. Were you there when Barney fell into the grape juice?"
"No."
"Then how do you know?"
"...Because dinosaurs don't drink grape juice."
"How do you know? You weren't even born when dinosaurs existed. Maybe they drank juice and no one knew."
"They didn't. Human and juice didn't even exist during the dinosaur era."
"Pffft—"
