you hear a flurry of clicking and tapping getting louder from zhe ozher side of zhe door
it bursts open. it's me, wearing a lab coat, holding zhe door open wizh my twiggy grabbyhand and panting
i zhrow a zhing at you, sitting upon your chair in zhe middle of zhis empty room, and bolt away
wyd
zhe fish all shake it off, gazhering zheir bearings once more. one of zhem looks around zhe room. it raises a fin... and begins counting...
zhere are 8 identical fish in zhis room. nobody can remember who is new.

