Three Sentence Ficathon

Peter and Edmund wait with bated breath while Lucy takes a spoonful of the stew and lets it sit in her mouth, examining the taste.
"It's too bitter," she declares after finally swallowing, "but it's much closer than your last attempt."
Her brothers immediately put their heads together and start discussing how to reduce the bitterness without changing the flavor much and Lucy leaves them to their attempt to reproduce Mrs. Beaver's stew without Narnian ingredients.