"Zhenya please just eat them, they're good for you!" Lisabel said.
"But mum these prunes taste so ancient," she said. "They're ancient prunes! And they are mortifyingly disgusting."
Dimitri let out a roaring laugh, and both women looked at him. He was busy reading a text book and making notes. "This Ancient Runes homework is Ancient Prunes," he said and they all cracked up laughing.

Zhenya, thinking it was the right time, picked up a handful of prunes and squished them in her hands.
Surprisingly, that just made clean-freak Lisabel laugh harder "Anc-Ancient Prrrunes," she gasped through laughs.