"taste it" he said.  "Its candy.  Have you never tasted candy? Its a treat for you for being such a good girl.  He smiled at her as looked at the small lump of sugar. "Go on, taste it. I promise its good."  If she was waiting for a cruel trick there wasn't one coming.  He waited patiently wanting to enjoy her first experience with sugar.<br/><br/>He remembered back to his first taste as a very small boy, and how it had lit up his taste-buds and his face, and the look in his Grandpa's eyes when he gave it to him.  Being at sea, Nikos had missed those opportunities with his own children, and now wanted it with her.