Now:

     "If you can hear me, clench your butt cheeks." Claudia said with a voice Skip heard within himself.

     Skip clenched.

     "I think we'll be okay if you mutter softly," Claudia said. "They'll think you're praying or going crazy or something, but don't do it too much. Don't do anything to stand out."

​     "Who the fuck are these assholes?" Skip muttered.

     "Mog renegades. Worst in the multiverse. The Mog themselves are bad enough, arrogant as fuck and always trying to take over everything, but at least they're disciplined. These renegades are anything but."

     Even as she spoke, the door leading outside flew open. The man next to Skip shrieked as a toad lifted him off his feet by digging claws into his back and shoulders.

     The door closed again before Skip got a chance to see what happened to him, but his screams lasted for a good two minutes.

     "Sooner or later, they're going to get to me," Skip muttered.

​     "You should have defecated before you left," Claudia replied. "It's a little cramped down here." 

     "That's all right. I'm about ready to crap myself, anyway."

​     "I sense that."

CONTINUE