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Emergency! Emergency! " blared the klaxons throughout Magrathea. "Hostile ship has landed on planet. Armed intruders in section 8A. Defense stations, defense stations!"
The two mice sniffed irritably round the fragments of their glass transports where they lay shattered on the floor. "Damnation," muttered Frankie mouse, "all that fuss over two pounds of Earthling brain. " He scuttled round and about, his pink eyes flashing, his fine white coat bristling with static. "The only thing we can do now," said Benjy, crouching and stroking his whiskers in thought, "is to try and fake a question, invent one that will sound plausible."