THE ART OF BETRAYAL under a rock, not only are GNOMES.
The fastest way to find something, you start looking for something else.
Murphy's Law
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London is dark and cold, the weather according to the Northland. Above the streets are history, centuries condensed in Cosmopolitan and many other avenues as if they cobbled wait a winged horse carriages. But it's a different world down the drain and is well aware that a rat.
The labyrinthine space that runs the underground in London is almost infinite and it is certain that in any map, for more updated than this would be missing at least one passageway or a curve to register, but it does not matter for their tenants rodents They consider it the perfect place to raise his family.
But it is strange indeed that is a particular rat strangely fat cleaner than usual, to run as if it were on fire tail. Its tiny potatoes can barely with plump body, because in his left little hand is missing a finger.
If he understood the language of rodents, those squeals and grunts that this rat would emit strongly easily interpreted as an endless string of insults. "You idiot fool study delayed Pooch ask pulgoso " and without commas, because neither breathing grunting and squealing.
rats are not normally a big fan of long trips and this is no exception, his breath and his prominent belly are evidence that prefer the fine art of wandering in the mist of dreams has to venture into unknown places, the rats they like the comfortable space with easy food, a house full of kids who leave food spilled and mother occupied is almost always ideal.
However, the journey of this particular city rat is not due to causes as mundane as a house with these particulars, their flight is a strategic retreat in order to find the right place to await the right moment to return , a smart rat doubt.
Finally, after much walking, really is much to walk a couple of years for a rat, leaving the field open and unspoilt countryside welcomes you with a fine sprayed grass cover, run with enthusiasm, understanding that if you have found such a place should be light years away from the danger of which fled. If I could jump and shout with joy I would, but it is better to go unnoticed and you never know if a cat round nearby. Come and walk
all day until it's dark, knows he can not stop until you are sure to be in a safe place to spend the night and finds it in a little burrow under a stone slab, pull under this at home and soon falls into a deep sleep or even a bomb that will disrupt.
But as soon as sleeping, or at least according to their perception, light blinds you while you raise your tail and small eyes sensitive to vandal focus of such a pity it is, a freckled boy, skinny red hair, but I guess this last because rats are colorblind and actually what you see is a gray-haired boy, illogical thing of course.
writhes in anger and despair, tries to bite and scratch but all in vain, children have a secure grip and good distance from your body, smart kid.
- there are no gnomes Mom, just a rat, "she shouts with squeaky voice.
-Go Percy, the bugs will no longer appear since I put that trap, "Charlie commented enthusiastically mother. Percy
rat observed with great interest as this is twisted between his fingers, their eyes are in an instant, melting into blue and black compression inevitable cosmic union actually it was just the whim of the solution child have a pet and the resignation of his inescapable destiny.
"Mom, I can keep her? By Percy favoooor-called excessive sweetness.
-No -
"Mom promises to take care-
" No, but look at it
"Mom said, teaching the animal to a clearly disgusted mother, this poor and can die at any moment I can not be so cruel to deny a home to a defenseless animal-
"No
" But mom I care and food and healed, continued stubbornly.
"No-No need to buy an owl
Those were magic words that the child did not want to pronounce, but the owl was not as great as a rat, a owl takes off for days to hunt or take the letters and would only occasionally, with a big, fat rat could have something more brilliant than his brothers.
"Promise to take care of her, fed her, not let her walk around and the Banaras-
" I promise, mother, said with great solemnity.
"Okay as call-
will Bartolomea
" Well, "said excited, raised a new pet to make it level with his face, the huge brown rat turned on its axis like a top and was dizzy, if Percy did not have much hair I had seen the greenish tone I was getting your skin. But like all good boy I was looking for was that something that a woman was identified as rat, but instead came across a trio of things that were of a man rat.
-Mom is not a rat-stated with conviction. Percy was not an idiot, he knew that rats were huge and were girls, the mice were dwarfs children, but this was completely baffling.
-1 is a time said.
Your mom just looked at him with that affection that only a mother can have, before bursting into loud laughter to the extent that his blue eyes watered and his plump face coloring with a deep flush.
- Do not laugh, "cried a Colorado Percy.
Sobo's mother only hair you with great affection, and then away to the house and let your little one with the great dilemma posed baptize his newly acquired pet. The child looked at the animal for long minutes, looking for an ear or a mustache Roger Timothy but there was nothing resembling even a Black ie, a rat was difficult. "I will call
Scabbers-
And Mr. Scabbers lived happily for many years, children in droves to let him run huge amounts of food, a mother busy enough to ignore him most of the time and unlimited access to the world magic, the perfect home.
1) This comes from my early childhood, as my irrefutable logic female animal names ending in ay or the male, and married the horse mackerel the rat with the time and if I knew English, the dog with doga.
