voice . 6th attack

[inhell]

I can't just keep a lamb in my room.

Iris!

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[routemistress]

Paging Maintenance and Repair Department. Can we 'ave someone come and build a sheep pen, please.

...Where'd you want it, Ellie?

[No shame. No regrets.]

[inhell]

This is like a hangover without the hangover.

[routemistress]

Best kind, I reckon. 'Ow's she doing?

[inhell]

Bottle-feeding her now.

[ She turns on the video, to show the lamb in her lap, going for the bottle. ]

Reckon she wasn't weaned properly. I think she's starving, poor thing.

[routemistress]

Oh, bless! Well, she won't be for long. Make a list of owt you need me to request aside from the sheep pen.

[She grins.]

Well worth it.

[inhell]

You're an awful warden.

[ she luvs u ]

[routemistress]

[Theatrical finger on lips.]

Shhhhhhh, I'm trying to keep that quiet.

[inhell]

You're even worse at quiet.

[routemistress]

Pretty good at diversions, though, eh?

[inhell]

'Would a lady bend over for that', honestly.

[routemistress]

They didn't know I'm no lady.

[So pleased with herself she can't even.]

[surfaceshine]

Wait, what?

[routemistress]

Get the saveloys out of your lug'oles, Sundance. Sheep pen. Keep up!

Ellie'll give you the specs.

[surfaceshine]

Like I know how to build a goddamn sheep pen.

[routemistress]

It's a pen for a sheep to live in, 'ow complicated can that be?

[surfaceshine]

That depends. How smart is the sheep?

[routemistress]

She's just a baby. Be a while before 'er mutant genius side shows itself yet.

[surfaceshine]

What was wrong with the pen she had?

[routemistress]

It's in Chicago.

[surfaceshine]

That's the one I mean, you dirty thief.

[routemistress]

It 'ad a flock of other sheep in it. Even I'm not that good.


[So not sorry.]

[inhell]

She's a lamb, not a Ned Kelly.

[surfaceshine]

[Dean squints amiably at the girl.]

So what're your thoughts, then?

[inhell]

If I was on a farm, I'd say she just needs a shed, maybe two- or three-sided? Nothing really big, so long as she gets time to come out and run a bit. Bigger means harder to muck out.

[surfaceshine]

So, what, we find a place to stick a sheep house and you take care of walkies?