A little girl with a ragged mop of blonde hair was playing in the sandbox, nestled in a corner of the Stormwind orphanage. Her name was Jenny.
She was playing her favorite game, Crabs and Castles. The crabs would scuttle up to the top of the castle, where they would scheme, plot, and sometimes fall dramatically to their deaths in the sea of sand.
Peter, who was gnawing at a half-eaten, drool-stained cookie, ambled over to her. "What are you doing?" he asked between bites.
"Playing," Jenny answered. She offered him a crab.
Peter stared at the crab for a minute, then took it, peering through his cracked Gnomish spectacles. They made his eyes look four times too big.
"What is it?"
"A crab," she answered. "He fell out of my castle."
Peter looked at the crab, then at Jenny, and then at the castle. Finally, he plopped down with her.
Now Edward, who hadn't smashed anything all day, was feeling really antsy. He spotted Jenny and Peter, and the giant heap of sand between them, full of inanimate crabs.
Edward stormed up to them. "Whattya doin'?" he demanded.
"Playing," they responded together.
Edward looked at the castle, then down at the dweebs with their goofy little pink, sand-caked fingers. He saw the bits of cookie all over Peter's face.
"Tha's stoopid," Edward declared loudly.
Jenny picked up a crab and offered it to Edward. "Want to play?"
Edward's whole face scrunched together like a sat-upon cushion. "Tha's stoopid!" he yelled again.
Jenny looked at the crab, and then the castle. She shrugged and went back to playing.
Edward lobbed a kick at the castle. Sand went spraying everywhere.
Jenny patiently began to pick up the desecrated sand piles, carefully shaping them again.
Edward kicked the castle again. This time, sand went in Peter's nose. He sneezed, spraying bits of cookie everywhere.
Jenny wiped sand out of her eyes, then went back to picking up the castle.
Intensely frustrated, Edward finally lost interest and stormed off. He decided it would be more fun to pick on Amber, since she had funny cheeks and made spit bubbles.
Now Jake, who usually played with Edward, had been watching all this. He was a little worried Edward wouldn't play with him anymore if he played with Jenny and Peter, but Crabs and Castles just looked like too much fun.
He waddled over to them, one hand in his mouth.
Jenny offered him a crab. "Want to play?"
