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.

“If you want to imagine the future, imagine a boy and his dog and his friends. A…”

“¿Ha estado alguna vez enamorado? Horrible, ¿no? Te hace tan vulnerable. Te abre…”

“She was also an adult, and when adults fight children, adults always win.”

“The only water in the forest is the River.”