He looked around toward the house. The green cloud was barely visible on the horizon.
“Today I really shot my mouth off,” he said slowly. “You’re a porky, nor a Cat. There’s no one to give you the whipping you deserve. You took it into your head to threaten him, you i***t. And Kornei has vanished.”
He looked at the robot. “Private Dramba, what did Kornei do when I left?”
“He ordered me to follow you, corporal, sir.”
Gack smiled bitterly, “And you of course followed his orders.”
He stood up, and went over to the robot, standing just inches away from him.
“Won’t you ever learn, you blockhead?” he whispered in a rage. “Whom do you take orders from? Who is your immediate superior?”
“Corporal Gack, His Highness’s Fighting Cat, corporal, sir,” Dramba snapped back.
“So how can you, you br
