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Title: Ask Ms. Manners
Challenge: Childhood.
Word count: 134. That's a perfect drabble plus thirty-four! I win!
Note: This... is really horrible. Hi-ho!



Days within their initial meeting, Watari immediately took it upon himself to quickly educate L in proper meal etiquette, lest the boy disfigure another member of Parliament with hot tea and a bread knife.

Watari taught L how to eat soup, serve tea, carve turkey, fold napkins, choose a wine, break open lobster, butter bread, give toasts, sharpen knives, eat spaghetti (without spilling), filter coffee, suppress gas for whole meals, make small talk, crack walnuts, and refrain from eating fruit with his feet. L was soon almost fit to dine with the Queen.

Almost. And it seemed it would remain that way, genius or no.

Watari tried again. "The salad fork is for salad, not-"

But L figured that as long as he ate the final strawberry with it, it was perfectly all right.