For all they knew, there was some sort of endangered sea creature out there that just needed gourds to survive! Maybe this was helpful, even.

"I think it's a Halloween thing to do, they smash so well," Irene offered, not totally certain since she'd mostly done Halloween in Fandom, where hooligans were unlikely to smash your jack o'lantern. "There's at least a band called that."

Though, yes -- a watermelon for example would probably smash splendidly, next summer.

"Did your students have fun with it?" she wondered, turning to Amaya curiously.