[Lol! Its an artifact statue, so I guess it would have survived anything but being dropped into SMR or the HFS. Including a thermonuclear catslposion. Are there any dead cats under it? LOL]
Everyone had left the dining room. Zanz on some random fool crusade to get himself and everyone else killed...like always... and hugo on some secret errand he didn't want to discuss.
He felt a bit like old luggage. Discarded and forgotten.
Mr Peepers was sleeping quietly after his dinner of disgusting turtle roast. The chicken didn't seem to mind it though.
Hugo had asked him to go guard the dining hall to replace corai.
He surveyed the now empty kitchen, save himself and his new pet. The bread he had started had swolen to gargantuan proportions. Apparently the yeast these dwarves were using wasn't quite good for making beer afterall... something he would remember from now on, and stick with drinking spirits and wine. There was also a lot of food left over. Nobody had touched the soup.... typical. Probably didn't even know it had been cooking. The noodles had been hit good, but the cake was mostly gone.
It seemed a shame to let the bread go to waste, so he beat it down, kneaded it back up with a few drops of water to replace the lost moisture from the warm kitchen, and divided it into several small dinner roll sized loaves. The dutch oven was versitile, but it wasn't exactly big, and it seemed that dwarves had no idea about bread at all.
With a huff, he washed his rubber gloved hands, and loaded up a handcart with thr surplus "lunch", and some utensils to eat it with. Pausing for a moment, he waddled off to the adjacent food piles, and grabbed a cask of plump helmet wine to go with it, then loaded it on the cart as well.
He wasn't sure what to do with Mr Peepers... if he left him there in the kitchen, somebody would discover him, and likely flip out the way hugo and zanz had. If he took peepers with him, he would get chilled again.
He stood there indecisive for several minutes, until he heard what sounded like eric and roead guffawing in the corridor. He was out of time, and he *DIDNT* want eric finding peepers until he was bigger. Throwing a cloth over the top of the nest box and disgusing it as junk to keep prying eyes out, and the kitchen's warm air in, he loaded it on the cart, and pushed it out of the kitchen, and toward the dining hall.
He would be conveniently missing when eric showed back up.