"Nobody got eated last year," he said in a very matter-of-fact voice, sounding rather pleased with himself.
He beamed brightly when she said she did like marshmallows. "Then you are a real princess, because you have a tiara and you like mallows." That seemed to settle something he'd been worrying about for a while.
When she started talking about adding extra chocolate sauce into her drink, his eyes went as wide as they could go. He quickly grabbed her hand and made her come with him to their pirate ship fort/cubbyhouse.
He turned back to her. "You can't ever tell the pirates that! They'll be here for sure! And then we can defeat them and all have chocolate sauce in our chocolate!"
But then he thought of something and looked up at her. "You, ahh, did bring chocolate sauce, I don't know if Daphee 'membered. She was busy baking Mummy's cake."