It was a perfectly normal gerbil. It appeared to be living in an exciting construction of cylinders, spheres and treadmills, such as the Spanish Inquisition would have devised if they'd had access to a plastics molding press.

“The PriestessHer skin was pale, and her eyes were dark, and her hair was dyed b…”

“I will dream if I want to, I said, and my death is my own affair.”

“She was the storm, she was the lightning, she was the adult world with all its …”

“Even in the pettiest, most unpromising material, she had discovered, you could …”