by Zoophilos » 05/19/2010 9:45 PM
The Jonisons started at the sound of Radar's yapping.
"What's with Radar?" Therese wondered aloud.
"Radar, watcha doin'?" Jared called. The only response was that Radar's yapping became louder and seemingly more urgent. Jared got up and went into the bedroom after Radar.
"Oh, dear." Radar had caught a wood Rattegan by it's tail.
"What is it, Jared?" Therese called.
"Just a minute, dear!" Jared gently took the rattegan's tail from Radar's mouth. "Good job, Radar," he murmured to the puppy. His first thought was to quickly knock the rodent's head against the wall and then toss it out the window, so Therese wouldn't have to know about it. But he hesitated. Killing a creature in Evelon didn't seem quite the same as killing an animal back in his world. What if this was an anthro currently in animal form? He glanced out the window. There were no soft spots outside that he could try to aim for if he tossed the rodent out alive. The only other way to get rid of the creature would be to take it down the stairs and release it, but he would have to take it through the dining room past Therese. But before he could make up his mind, keeping Therese from knowing about the rodent became a moot point.
"Oh, wow! Dad's caught a rat!" Jason had followed his father from the table.
"A RAT!" Therese echoed Jason. "Rayim, you said this was a good house!"
"It is a good house!" Rayim answered, "Well, it was a good house! I guess a few squatters moved in after the last time I was here." Jared moved to the doorway, gingerly holding the rattegan by its tail. The creature wasn't bothering to struggle and hung limply.
"Is it dead?" asked Audrey.
"No, it's definitely alive," her father replied. "I was thinking of taking him outside and releasing him."
"You can't release it right outside the house," Therese protested. "It will just come right back in, through whatever hole it got in by in the first place."
"Maybe we could keep it," Jason said. He loved rats, having kept several as a pet in his childhood.
"You can't keep a wild rat, Jason," Therese told him. "A wild rat isn't the same as a pet rat. They'll bite, and they often carry diseases." Jason looked a bit disappointed.
"This isn't just a rat," Jared put in, "This is a Rattegan. They each have a bell and a scroll attached to the tip of their tails, and magical flames on their backs to ward off predators."
"Maybe wild rattegans are different from wild rats," Jason said, looking hopeful again. "Dad, you haven't studied rattegans yet, have you? Maybe this is an opportunity!"
Therese was unsure about this opportunity. Jared was unsure about doing something Therese was so unsure about. But at any rate, he couldn't just keep holding the poor creature by its tail, so they searched their bags for something to contain it in. Audrey came up with a small plastic container, originally intended to hold insects. It was large enough to hold the rattegan for the moment.
As soon as dinner was finished, the men in the family began searching the house for possible entrances for a rattegan. Jared found a small hole in the window corner, and blocked it up. Jason found another small hole under the door to the stairway.
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