DANGER MOUSE:
A DAY LATE AND AN HOUR LATER
WRITTEN BY ZARIUS
The fourth knock was what stirred Squawk from her slumber. She figured she needed a doorbell. And soon.
She got off her chair, placed her feet in his slippers, and opened the door to find Danger Mouse running around in a frantic circle. He was wearing a headband, and a digital heart measuring device attached to his wrists.
Squawk was bamboozled...was he actually attempting to keep fit?
"Hey, fancy nipping out for a sprint?" he asked.
"Do you know what time it is?" Squawk said.
"Oh don't remind me of the time, I have plenty of it. Far too much to spare" DM replied.
"Yeah, but...what about the pandemic?"
"Pandemic?" DM asked, his one good eyebrow raised in curiosity.
"Don't you watch the news?
"Not if I can help it"
"You'd best keep indoors; you're not safe out there. Nobody is"
"I've never seen clearer skies; this must be doing a lot for the environment. I always said you should pay attention to what the kids are saying at these protest rallies. Modest little planeteers"
Squawk opted to humour DM with some commentary of her own.
"If you ask me, this was Mother Earth's way of letting us know exactly what it's thought of all the divisions going on in the world. Cartoon Presidents, Brexit, litterbugs, and the lot of it. This all a reaction to how split down the middle our squabbling little race is. If you want to sort it out in a biblical sense, this is God grounding us"
"Well, maybe God sent me along to remind you there's something for us all to explore. I can't imagine a more peaceful world than the one we have right now"
"You really are a day late and an hour later on everything that's gone on aren't you?" Squawk said, permitting himself a warm and contented smile, her spirits already lifted.
"If this is what's ahead of me, we all need to put our best feet forward behind us" she said.
Squawk let out a hearty laugh, this was the final bit of convincing she needed, and she headed back inside to fetch her coat.