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Guppy comes into the infirmary from the office, spots the curtain and goes over to it. Picking up the notes next to him, he crouches down in front of the infirmary's newest inhabitant, lying on a pile of blankets on the floor.

[ooc: Visiting post for Snowball]

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Snowball whines softly and looks up at Guppy.

"Hello there..." he glances at the notes. "Snowball." He smiles at the pig. "Can I get you anything? Food, drink, pain relief?"

Snowball lifts his head slowly.

"Water would be good, thank you comrade."

He hesitates for a moment.

"Please could you tell Comrade Amanda that I'm okay? She was worried."

Guppy nods and smiles.

"Sure, no problem." He gets water for Snowball then goes off in search of Amanda.

Amanda walks in with Guppy carrying a tray of food and water. Placing it down she hands Guppy a sandwich. Pouring Snowball some water, "Morning Comarade Snowball." she is grinning, "How are you feeling?"

"Weak. Thank you comrade."

He drinks some of the water.

"Sorry for scaring you."

"Thanks." Guppy takes a bite of the sandwich as Snowball speaks.

"You will do, for a few days. According to your notes you lost quite a lot of blood."

Pay back and all that right.

"Here have a cucumber." she hands him the cucumber, choosing that one first because she figures it's his favorite.

Turning to Guppy to make sure he is eating his sandwich. The other one was forher but she wants to make sure the guys are eating first. The sandwiches are Roast beef.

Guppy pauses for a moment, torn between his thought of 'was this humanely slaughtered?' and 'do I really want to know where Bar gets food from?'

He eats the sandwich.

Snowball eats the cucumber.

"Thank you comrade. How are things out there? Is Marigold here?"

Shaking her head, "No, you are the only one that stayed. I'm sorry."

At this point Amanda starts eating her own sandwich.

Snowball rests his chin on the blanket.

"I wonder why Squealer didn't want anyone to know I was dead. I'd have thought he would have revelled in the glory of having killed me, but he missed his chance because he insisted on moving me further away from the main farm."

"Clearly he is up to something. But right now don't worry about it. Just rest, regain your strength." she offers him some watermelon.

He doesn't eat it.

"She said she still loves me. But then when we snuut she was just distracting me. That means she's being forced to do things against her will. She's in trouble, and I should go back for her."

He tries to get to his feet but is pushed gently back down again by Guppy.

Guppy and Amanda, "Snowball there isn't anything you can do for her at the moment." Amanda ofcourse suspects that she might be using her feminine charmes on Snowball as she has to so many but realizes that Snowball is probably right. EIther way he needs his strength.

"You know we will do everything we can to help you and her but at the moment you must rest. Please."

Guppy nods. "Amanda's right. You don't want to be going anywhere in that state. If you go back now you will be of no use to her, you'll just get killed. I've been looking at your notes. Shot, bitten, collision with windmill, any one of those could have cost you your life. In short, you were very, very lucky."

Snowball sighs and turns away, refusing to touch any more of the food.

Amanda hugs him gently. She may have missed him more when he was gone then she let on to anyone.

After a while Guppy gets up.

"I'll leave you guys to it." he says gently, putting a hand on Amanda's shoulder.

A solitary tear trickles down Snowball's cheek.

"Beasts of England, beasts of Ireland,
Beasts of every land and clime
Hearken to my joyful tidings
Of the golden future time."

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