The rumor was true.He had stolen it! Khan

Khan said " soldiers find the thief who stole my most precious ..."

Khan let the sentence trail off. His soldiers remained motionless in the great palace. They knew what Khan thought was precious. They also knew why he couldn't say it. Khan wanted

a telepathic translator, as his lips had been frozen by a vengeful sorcerer. He could no longer stand up for himself when he did something clumsy, and his mum yelled "KHAAAN!"

But his mum was full of secrets and made him a nice sandwich that would restore his neurotransmitter levels. She even wrote a ward with the rooster sauce to guard her son. He stood

in the cantine line with a metal tray thinking, who can eat this slop. But then the cook with missing fingers handed him a sammich with all the fixings, winked & said "From Mum".

It was then that he realized that the fingerless mess hall cook was, in fact, his Mum, dressed as a man. "Mum!" he tried not to yell, "What the hell are you doing in Korea?"

"Just making sure you eat your vegetables, honey." "How'd you lose your fingers?!" "The boat here to Korea capsized and a shark ate them."" Why are dressed like a man in prison?"

He then stared at me, his eyes shining with nothing but pure seriousness. I watched his reactions with pure curiosity. "Just eat your vegetables." He let out a sigh, defeated.

Then he froze. "I don't have to eat my vegetables.. if vegetables don't exist!"He laughed when I saw him 20 years later, building a time pod to go back and erase veggies forever.