wallwalker

Roxy, between her nonsensical drunken ramblings, tells Dirk stories about the carapacians. They're unruly, she says, hunting her old experiments, then showing up at her door and begging for more pumpkins to eat - raw, she adds, with exaggerated disgust. They can't talk like humans, but their carapaces click when they move, and it apparently drives her up the wall!

("Iss sit ayn wonder," she typed one afternoon, "that ive turned to dronk?" She didn't bother to correct herself. That must've been a tough day.)

He tries to sympathize, but he really wants to tell her how lucky she is.