I didn't think this though. But hey, least it worked!

(#00382 - A017)

[The third and final anon from the post that gets you mail]

They were upside-down. Tangled in an assortment of cables. In definite trouble with any authorities, should they be found. Suspended over something that, because it flowed, had to be called a liquid. And worse, the local vermin had sensed a disturbance in their environment and were swarming in their general direction.

Ax’and’l managed to move enough so that he could glare at Hwell. “So, Mister Barrow,” he snarled with mock politeness. “Any other fabulous ideas?”

He forgot the primary, and most important rule when dealing with humans: do not ever, under any circumstances whatsoever -no, not even ironically - ask a human for an idea.

It was life-threatening in several ways at once. It was terrifying. It got them dangerously close to whatever that oozing gluck was in the bottom of an evidently-forgotten area of this station. It probably exposed them to toxic gasses from coming way too close to the aforementioned ooze.

But it also got them onto a maintenance ledge with a hackable door that at least lead away from the probably-toxic vapours.

“Why in the name of the Powers do I allow you to continually upset my life?” Ax’and’l wailed.

"You’re right, you’re right,” Hwell soothed. “I didn’t think this through. But hey - at least it worked!”

“Failure was an option in this allegedly cunning plan?”

“Eeehh, that stuff was probably non-neutonian. Odds are, we’d have bounced.”

Humans…

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