"No! For the last time, horsepower doesn't actually mean horses, you dense child!"
"Hey, that hurts."
"I don't care! Just answer the Torp-damned riddle and get the hell out of my cave!"
"So...how many horses do these train things have?"
Deathlord Frank let out a strangled scream, reaching his hands out as though to strangle Turbo Thunder before letting them drop to his side. "HORSEPOWER! DOESN'T! MEAN! HORSES!"
"So how much longer do you think this is going to go on?" Wolf Knight asked Burning Mermaid.
"Too long." Burning Mermaid replied. She wandered over to Deathlord Frank's desk and started shuffling through it. Deathlord Frank was much too distracted by Turbo's argument to notice.
"So more horses means more speed, right? That doesn't seem right. That seems like you'd get the same speed, just more, you know, horses."
"WHY IS THIS SO HARD FOR YOU TO UNDERSTAND?!" Deathlord Frank shrieked. "IT'S JUST ANOTHER WORD FOR ENGINE POWER."
"What's an engine?"
Burning Mermaid gently pushed Turbo Thunder to the side.
"Please tell me you're less of an idiot than your friend." Deathlord Frank said, holding his hands to his temples.
"Mhmm." Burning Mermaid replied, with a nod.
"Great, perfect, let's get this over with." Deathlord Frank took a deep breath and regained his composure. "Okay, so...if a train leaves the Kingdom of Happyshine-"
Burning Mermaid abruptly lunged forward and slammed a letter opener into Deathlord Frank's face. Deathlord Frank shrieked and his body deformed and dissolved into his robe and onto the ground in a puddle of Deathlord goo. She then walked over to the robe and rifled through it, pulling out a small vial of blood. "Look, I solved the riddle." She said, showing the vial to Wolf Knight and Turbo Thunder, who had moved as far from her as possible.
"That's....g-great." Wolf Knight said. "G-good job."
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