Chapter Twenty-Four – Secret Message
DAVE ROLLED HIS EYES. “Honestly, Carrie, you overreact sometimes. Look at them. They’re just big slugs. If they try to attack us, we can just squish them.”
Carrie was vigorously shaking her head. “You haven’t seen them in action. You haven’t seen how fast they can move. What they can do.” She began to edge towards a corner where no squashpump had yet emerged.
“I’ll tread on one and show you,” said Dave, stepping towards a large squashpump.
“No, don’t,” Carrie exclaimed. “You can’t just squash them. They’re intelligent.” Remembering the way the Foreign Secretary had survived being sliced in half, she was not sure that squashing would hurt them anyway.
“Watch out,” said Dave.
Something wet and heavy fell onto Carrie’s shoulder. She shrieked and flic
