She nodded and smiled. I noticed some bottles filled with various coloured liquids on a shelf. I found the cloth. I pulled down half a dozen bottles and started to mix them. Grown up people know that mixing chemicals is not a good idea.
Adults have at least the notion of a concept of the possible consequences of mixing chemicals.
Those with experience in these matters inform us that putting six randomly selected chemicals on to one small cloth which already stank of chemicals is hardly a wise thing to do. But I was eight years old and I could do what I liked. In this world I was the captor, the giant dragon slayer. In this land, I was a King. The hole in the ground made by the explosion was not, perhaps as dramatic as I initially thought.