After leaving a note for Cordelia that
she had an emergency on the surface, Veronica linked
away.
Now she sat in front of the computer at the
address given to her by Grizz. She located the open file
list under Word, but instead of opening the specified
name in the letter, she opened up the first one on the
list.
"Hmm...this can't be the
important information he wanted the Professor to have,
can it?"
Thietris Professor Thietris Squirrel, CEO,
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Meanwhile, Professor T returns to his
office with his purchases. He places the toy squirrel on
his desk, and approaches it with the
scissors.
<Oh, hello there. Are you my
daddy?>
Oh, crumbs. There is no way he can
do this. The voice of the toy squirrel is obviously
triggered by movement. Instead, he finds a clean
handkerchief, and empties the contents of the catnip bag
(thoughtfully provided by Ms Fairchild) on to it. He
sews up the hanky into a vaguely mouse-like shape, sews
a piece of string on at one end, and draws a crude face
with a felt-tip pen on the other. Armed with this
enticement, he sets out for WHOOPS once
again.
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Hmmm.
Professor T walks into
WHOOPS. The plant shop now seems very well stocked. He
eases his way past exotic spiny stems, brushes large
leaves aside and makes his way further into the depths
of the premises. The exotic fragrance of tropical lilies
fills the air. The large cat is sitting on a velvet
cushion, his back feet in the air, apparently completely
oblivious of potential customers. The sunglasses still
obscure the cat's eyes.
Professor T grasps the
tail of the home-made mouse in one paw, ready to dangle
it front of the cat's nose and thereby stir him into
action.
"So. Vee meet again, Professor Thietris,"
says Seymour.
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President and Managing Director, Institution of Advanced Exploration
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"We were discussing Gunnera
manicata, I believe," recalls Seymour. "What's that
you're holding?"
Professor T sheepishly hands
over the home-made mouse. Seymour holds it out at paw's
length and, after staring at it for some moments, turns
slowly back to the professor, giving him a somewhat
old-fashioned look from above the top of his
sunglasses.
Cordelia sees the note from Veronica and
wonders briefly what sort of emergency someone like her
could have. Maybe she's spilt something down her Pierre
Cardin blouse and needs to get it dry cleaned, she
thinks.
Anyway, no point in pondering that too
hard. Cordelia heads on down to the fountain area to see
what is going on down there. She noticed the professor
sneaking out of his office with something under his paw
and she has no doubt he is doing something very
important.
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President and Managing Director, Institution of
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A
man in a suit and carrying a briefcase approaches
Cordelia, and raises his hat politely in
greeting.
"Oh, pardon me. I'm the Official
Inspector. It's my job to check up on all the research
establishments, just to make sure that everything is
running normally. Would you tell me how to get to the
Director's office, please?"
"Yes, certainly. It's
just through that door over there."
"Oh, thank
you. The inspection's nothing to worry about. We're not
ogres!"
"Understood. Though I should point out
that our professor is, in fact, a squirrel."
"Ha,
ha. That's not a very polite way to talk
about-
"No, you misunderstand me. Professor
Thietris is a squirrel."
"Ha [cough]. Yes.
Well, the conversation will be a little one-sided, I
fear."
"Oh no. He does talk."
"Yes, well,
thank you, Miss - Miss Cordelia. I will not waste any
more of your valuable time and I shall go and see the
professor straight away. Good day to you!"
The
Inspector enters the gloomy office and eventually
locates the desk. There is a lamp on the desk, which
casts its light softly over nearby objects. He peers at
the object on the desk.
MrD sat on top of the mushroom and
continued to cry, for the fear of being found by the
badgers was getting high. He looked all around,
searching high and low, but he didn't notice any badgers
moving down below. Just when he was going to give up
on the plan, he felt the mushroom move under his
hand. "What is going on?" he asked himself, wondering
if the mushroom was going to collapse on the
shelf. The mushroom was not going to go down, instead
it grew up and rose above the town. MrD kept on going
higher and higher, wondering how many tears did he
perspire. A loud rumble filled the air but the
badgers were not surprised, since all mushrooms seem to
grow at some point in their lives. But what they
found odd that it did not rain recently, since there are
massive growth spurts when it rained quite
heavily. Curious on the cause, the badgers decided to
search the shroom, but lucky for the forumites, they did
not see MrD or the hidden room. MrD still stuck on
top of his tower so tall, began to wonder "How am I
going to get down? Fall?"
Studying gives you
knowledge. Knowledge is power. Power corrupts. I am
learning how to be corrupt.
Cordelia walked slowly back to her
office, chuckling to herself. She just couldn't wait to
see the expression on the man's face when he realised
that the professor really was a squirrel.
Then
she suddenly realised that she had forgotten to tell the
man that the professor wasn't in his office at that
moment in time.
She walked back and stood outside
the door. She was just about to go in but she could hear
voices.
"That's strange," she thought "I wonder
who he's talking to....."
She thought
better of interrupting and walked away
again.
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Professor T had indeed recognized
Gunnera manicata from its picture in the
catalogue and was now undergoing his interview, which
was intended to establish that the plant was going to a
"happy home".
"Well, it's coming here!" exclaimed
the professor. "Where could be happier than
here?"
At that moment, raised voices could be
heard outside the front of the shop.
"What sort
of madhouse is this?"
"Don't you dare call the
professor mad!"
"Professor? What professor? Do
you take me for a complete idiot?"
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Professor, try putting a cone on your head. If you do, I
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just to get rid of you.