Good Morning/Afternoon/Evening/Night(whichever one it is in your part of the world),
Okay my last review for the day. Couldn't get the end as planned unfortunately.
First Imression: Well that was interesting. They turned that also into a test and now it looks like they're wiping their hands clean so that they can let the government deal with it.
Anyway let's get to it,
Chip wasn't overly pleased by the shape of the hole in the wall, but he had to admit it was impressive. It was very long, sure, but also low to the ground, low enough that Chip's cotton wool bedding would be able to hide it. Of course, this also meant that when the time came to try and get through it, he was going to have to do so by shimmying flat on his stomach.
Well that can't be easy for either of the bigger animals to fit through.
He turned his head to the side, preferring not to hit his nose against the jagged upper edge of the hole. Reaching his left limbs out, he grabbed hold of his friends' paws, pushing himself across the ground with his right. Then he was through, into the enveloping darkness of the air duct. And still no sign of Haldane, MacLean or, worst, Crothers.
Some pretty subtle foreshadowing going on there which is great.
But finally they were faced by a grate directly above. Sue the mouse delicately balanced one of Dexi's chicken bones into the screws in the furthest away two corners, with Lisa catching them as they fell. Then Gerry the toucan nudged the grate upwards with his head as he flapped as smoothly as he could into the air. Chip was all the way at the back of the queue, unable to get past Juliet. He'd have offered use of his opposable thumbs if he could, but he was stuck watching nervously as Gerry poked his head out the duct. He froze.
That mouse has some serious skills. Opening a screw using a freaking chicken bone.
By the time all six of them had dragged themselves glumly out of the grate, nobody particularly wanting to shuffle backwards down the air duct into Crothers' arms, Haldane had been summoned. Chip looked up into the sun behind her head - at least they'd made it outside - and was glad that it was too bright to see her expression. She had to be gloating, and gloating looked so much worse on her face than Crothers'.
Well that was kinda expected you have to admit. The tunnel just seemed to be much too hard of a task.
So that was how they had ended up cramped in the back of a van rumbling down the M74. Chip couldn't stop staring at the dog sitting directly across from him. Not Juliet, another dog. The six of them had been bundled into the van a few hundred metres from the squat concrete building, and it was only when they were inside that their eyes adjusted to the darkness and they realised they were not alone. They were joined by three more animals: a dog, a rabbit and a mouse. Only Dexi hadn't seemed shaken, but Chip didn't have the nerve to ask her why. In fact, nobody had really had the nerve to say anything. It had been hours, it must have been, and not a word had come from the frowning mouths of the animals assembled in the van. They all sat on the tops of cages, or if they were small enough on the head or shoulder of a friend, staring at the ground and saying nothing. Finally, the silence was broken. "Anyone have any idea where we're going?" said Juliet. Chip shuddered. She had spoken from a few spaces away on his right, but he found himself looking right into the eyes of her doppelganger as she spoke. It was very dissonant. He looked around at Juliet, and so did the dog. "No idea," Henry the rabbit muttered, "But it's not like it can be worse than there." "Hey, they haven't even started doing experiments on you yet!" Dexi snapped. "It was a matter of time!" Henry shouted back. He was directly to Chip's left, while Dexi was sprawled out on the floor of the van. Unfortunately her head was at the other end, almost up at the driver's seat. "Time!" shouted the other rabbit, who was also sitting near Chip and Henry.
Okay that's a bit too big of a chunk right there. I think you probably break this up at the points where the dialogue happens.
Suddenly there came a shout from the driver’s seat, in the unmistakable barking voice of Frederick Crothers. "You probably don't want to go gossiping about Haldane. Never know what she's filming, or when it'll come back to bite you!"
Crother's continuing to be a complete annoying moron.
Wide, luscious grounds of green grass spread out before them, with their feet padding along what he realised now was not gravel but some beautifully shiny stones that made up the garden path. The path disappeared down a few dips and up some hills, but he could just make out its faint, thin brown line coming to a stop outside a house. A mansion. He’d never seen such a sprawling expanse of walls and windows. And he could only see the front of it. Who knew how far back it reached, or maybe it curved to the side and he couldn’t see that either.
That is a great description right there. This should be interesting.
“That sort of place has protected air space,” Crothers said, somewhat unnecessarily by that point, in Chip’s opinion. He went on anyway, “Google Earth aren’t even allowed over here. This, you freaks of nature is where we finally part ways. Welcome to Chetterly Manor.”
Cue the very dramatic music.
And that's it for this one.
Overall: Soo...another twist in the tale. I was expecting them to get caught tunneling but I didn't think that they would actually get sent to Chatterly Manor. Well at least they'll all probably be together which is good. Let's see what happens next.
As always remember to take what you think was helpful and forget the rest.
Stay Safe
Harry
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