CHAPTER 16- Pandora -
Beaker is as pleased to see Penny as she is to be back. Wearing a relieved expression and a freshly laundered lab coat, he hurries to meet them, holding the door open as the threesome pile in, looking dishevelled and no doubt smelling like an offal pit.
Poor Beaker. He’s done such a sterling job of decontaminating the lab—the sulphurous stench of this morning’s misadventure now overlaid with the clean fragrance of Cleanase—and here she is, traipsing in with Cerberus in tow, the both of them having just cavorted with a dead body in the initial stages of putrefaction. Not to mention the mud, cow pats, and guano-encrusted shed roofs. And there’s no telling what Matiu might have stepped in after setting the dogs free.
Erring on the safe side, Beaker has drenched the pl
