Effects of not having breakfast.

When she was small, Wendy got up early every winter morning to stoke the fire and huddle under a blanket playing Minecraft until the very last moment before missing the school bus. She ate a honeycrisp apple every day just before lunch, so she wouldn’t be hungry until the afternoon when she got off the bus. Thus it came to pass that when she woke with a start in the middle of the night to a golden shimmer, her hand shot out in a flash and she had the imp in her stomach before she realized it was no cookie.