Apart from Bernie being rather quiet and Herman being exhausted, Sunday afternoon at Ramsgill progressed rather pleasantly considering the world was being invaded by aliens. Sonia was awake and helping the professor build a tiny brainwave helmet for Herman to wear for forthcoming experiments, they lunched on the final delicious dregs of the dishes in the cafeteria, and the Japanese Rabbit Island video had caused great hilarity.
‘But they killed her!’ cried Luke.
His father tried to straighten his face, ‘Yes, son, it looks like that, but she was very obese. I don’t honestly think they could tickle her to death, she probably just had a heart attack.’
Luke looked unconvinced, ‘That man looked pretty scared.’
The Professor looked up, ‘I’m going to go and study the footage,’ he announced, a
