He brought all his things, including a supply of the chocolate Sierra so adored. Kade did not keep chocolate in the house, but when Sierra passed through the kitchen a day after Kade’s departure, she immediately scented a large amount of the stuff and tracked it down to one of the cupboards. There, to her great surprise and extreme joy, was an entire case of chocolate. It was contained in a large cardboard box, but she knew precisely what it was, for it was giving off waves of the irresistible scent.She sat down on the kitchen floor and began to tear into her find then and there, like a hungry hyena chancing across a freshly downed gazelle. There was all sorts of wrapping to contend with, unfortunately. The habit of wrapping food repetitively in non-food items was a citizen foible. She broke through a plastic outer layer, ripped through the cardboard, and discovered that the case was filled with thick bars of chocolate, each of which was wrapped in foil. Once she ripped the foil away there were seven pieces to feast upon.
