Friday, January 12, 2007

Blattodeacino

After several minutes' silence across the breakfast table Arioch said, "I have a confession."

"Hmmm?" Indagari enquired around a sip of coffee.

"The coffee maker. While you were showering. I thought the water reservoir looked a bit manky so I pulled it out to give it a good clean.

"...There was a cockroach in there."

Indagari's coffee cup was placed back on the table with fastidious horror. Indagari was not one for histrionics.

"It's OK - I made your coffee only after I disposed of the corpse and cleaned out the reservoir and tubes. "

Indagari could not help but continue to stare in horror at the coffee.

"The thing is, the cockroach was mouldy and going transparent. I wonder how long it's been in there." Arioch scratched one antenna with a middle leg thoughtfully. "Still, we don't seem to have suffered any ill effects."


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