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milliways_bar2007-02-21 04:37 pm
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Artie is Investigating. He's scurrying around the bar in gerbil form, sniffing at corners and chair legs, climbing up to cross tabletops, occasionally stopping dead in his tracks for no apparent reason.
Gerbils have much poorer vision than humans, but their senses of smell and hearing are considerably more acute. Artie relied on those two senses for most of his life, up until Helen unwittingly gave him the ability to turn human. Now, he's using those senses to get a feel for the bar. The different qualities of the patrons' footsteps, the odors of various kinds of food and drink, the high-pitched squeaks of the waitrats bickering--even the smell of the varnish on the hardwood floor tells a story.
Artie already understands Milliways on a human level. Now he wants to understand it on his level.
Please try not to step on him.
Gerbils have much poorer vision than humans, but their senses of smell and hearing are considerably more acute. Artie relied on those two senses for most of his life, up until Helen unwittingly gave him the ability to turn human. Now, he's using those senses to get a feel for the bar. The different qualities of the patrons' footsteps, the odors of various kinds of food and drink, the high-pitched squeaks of the waitrats bickering--even the smell of the varnish on the hardwood floor tells a story.
Artie already understands Milliways on a human level. Now he wants to understand it on his level.
Please try not to step on him.