Xyla Quest nodded. “I’ll do it myself.”

“I’ll peel it for you,” Stanley Batton told her.

“But I would like to eat the roasted sweet potatoes first,” she said.

“You can have it first.”

Xyla happily began to eat a sweet potato after peeling one.

The sweet potatoes Zack Cassidy bought were all tiny but sweet.

Outside, it was snowing.

It felt right to be eating roasted sweet potatoes on a snowy day like this.

After taking two bites, Xyla brought the sweet potato close to Stanley’s mouth. “He