They did not take a watch together that night. Gregor didn’t want to argue with Luxa. What he wanted was to think up an answer to her question that would dazzle everyone. The problem was…he didn’t know what else could be done about the rats abusing the nibblers. If they didn’t use force, how could the humans stop them? He knew the rats would not listen to talk. Since the plague, the humans had given the rats a lot of food and medicine to make up for unleashing the disease, but it had not erased the bitterness.
