Katherine has dropped Gaius at his place and gone home to hers.
Gaius makes his way in the dark to his back garden shed.
His bike is covered in spider webs.
And the tyres have gone flat.
He'll have to deal with those things in the morning.
He wheels his bike to the back door.
He goes inside and looks at the clock. Four am.
It IS morning.
But too early to go and see Belle.
I'll sleep for two hours, says Gaius. Wake me at six am, Terence.
Okay, says Terence.
Gaius goes to bed
Terence and Prong look at the bicycle through the back window.
Let's clean it, says Terence.
What with? asks Prong.
Anything, says Terence.
He goes outside. Prong follows.
There is a box of old rags in a box at the corner.
Terence picks up a rag.
Prong picks one up too.
They start wiping spider webs from the wheels and the frame of the bicycle.
Several spiders jump off and start running.
Terence and Prong keep on wiping.
Did you see them jump off and start running? asks Terence.
Yes I saw them, says Prong. I wonder where they're going?
There goes another one, says Terence. You should follow it.
Okay, says Prong. She follows the running spider.
Stop! says Prong.
The running spider stops running.
What? asks the spider.
Where are you going? asks Prong.
Anywhere to get away from the underpants, says the spider.
Were we using underpants? asks Prong.
Neither Prong nor Terence had shaken out the rags and seen they were underpants.
Yes, says the spider.
Prong goes back to Terence to tell him.
They decide to stop cleaning the bike.
Is it six am yet? asks Terence.
Nearly, says Prong.
How nearly? asks Terence.
Five am, says Prong.
So they have an hour before they're allowed to wake Gaius.
They play Cannot But Be.
Terence asks Prong this good question:
What if your bike's full of spiders?
Prong doesn't know.
Cannot but be bitten on the BUM! says Terence.
They both laugh loudly.
Somehow the underpants have made it even more funny.
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