"We can send a waitrat. Have you met the infirmary waitrats yet?" Guppy asks, going to the office to try and find them.
The older rat is curled up having a sleep on a little cushion. Two other rats are playing tetris on the computer between them.
"That's Aesclepius having a doze." he says. "He's getting on a bit so don't work him too hard. That's Work Experience bouncing on the space bar, and Backup is on the arrow keys. They're mirror images because Backup got sort of cloned from him during the apocalypse." Beat. "Can you two pause that for a minute, I need you to go and check whether the guy in the bathroom has clothes on and whether he knows how to work the tap."
He leans over and taps on the P button. The two waitrats scurry off towards the bathroom.
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"We can send a waitrat. Have you met the infirmary waitrats yet?" Guppy asks, going to the office to try and find them.
The older rat is curled up having a sleep on a little cushion. Two other rats are playing tetris on the computer between them.
"That's Aesclepius having a doze." he says. "He's getting on a bit so don't work him too hard. That's Work Experience bouncing on the space bar, and Backup is on the arrow keys. They're mirror images because Backup got sort of cloned from him during the apocalypse." Beat. "Can you two pause that for a minute, I need you to go and check whether the guy in the bathroom has clothes on and whether he knows how to work the tap."
He leans over and taps on the P button. The two waitrats scurry off towards the bathroom.