Chapter 5
ROYAL VEGETABLE KINGDOM OF EATON, Oleracea Spinach Fields
Lady Marasmi Duxelle toured the battlefield, where dead vegetables and Gourmans lay scattered about. For every dead Gourman—a cereal box, a soda bottle, a giant pretzel—there were three dead vegetables. Bodies were everywhere, piled up in mounds. Vegetable soldiers in blue and white uniforms moved around the battlefield, stacking their dead on carts.
The field, overgrown with spinach, was sullen—a contrast to its usual brightness. The wind blew gently, stirring the mackerel sky of mashed potato clouds. The water chestnut sun shone through a hole in the clouds.
Lady Duxelle took in the area as the stench of rotting grease from a nearby Gourman made her cough.
She carried a sword and wore blue armor that hugged her body
