"I don't know. It was a thing. There was strawberries. Or maybe cherries," Merton answered vaguely. Gideon always figured out what he meant, or Heath did.
He looked at Gideon and pouted a little. "I like baby chickens too. But I want to go in a shark cage. Or one of those shark tunnel things." Merton's fascinations usually faded quickly, as he was easily distracted. But he tended to remember longer when he was told that he couldn't do something.