"'S okay, you can help. Dunno if it's gonna get done, 'cause we're supposed to be eating it, but I don't feel like doing that," they say frankly. "It might fall down if it gets too tall and stuff, too. Or if you feel like smashing it..."

Pause.

"...if you do, maybe we can make it a castle first."

Petty and childish, they know, but they're still kind of mad at the castle, and that'll be less distressing to people than actually wrecking a part of the castle again.