6. The Question of Humanity’s Defence
The Prime Minister straightened to the camera and smiled as two rabbits appeared on the screen before her.
They were both small and white, but one had little ears pointing up and the other, slightly the larger of the two, had a broader face and lop ears with a little scruff of hair around them.
‘Hello, there,’ the Prime Minister began warmly, ‘thank you for coming along to speak to me tonight. Should I call you Alpha and Omega? Or do you have your own names?’
The rabbits exchanged a look.
‘Something less poncey, you mean?’ asked the uppy-eared bunny.
‘Cooler,’ added the larger lop-eared one, laconically.
‘What does the littlest human call me?’ asked the uppy-eared bunny of her friend.
‘Stinky.’
‘Yeah, stinky. You can call me stinky.’
‘And you
