Oh dear, Ponder. Yes. Ponder and Victor, that is. Ponder still doesn't know I know about them, and that makes things awkward. At least he's stopped going about me and my Chiddy being too open. That always made me want to call him all sorts of hypocrite. But I couldn't, because Ponder would only say "erm" for a whole week if I did.

And now we share co-non-ownership of a crate of astonishingly cute rats. Isn't there a way HEX can determine which are male and wich are female? And then Ponder keeps the males, and I keep the females, or something? I would hate to have to kill an animal I know. Or have dwarfs eat it. I must be the worst assassin ever.