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for
another rooster. As far as we know, there are four
besides this one. Roosters donтАЩt have names, donтАЩt
ask
me why. At first we gave them nicknames -- Dodo,
Dopey,
Dumbo, Ding-dong, and Dufus -- only when Balfour
found
out, she pitched a fit. Our job was to follow,
observe,
and protect the Kuvat, she said, not to make snide
remarks. She doesnтАЩt even like us calling them
roosters.
When she overheard Jasper laughing about "Dopey" back
in
August, she pulled him from the following team and
banished him to Waste Assessment, where he sifts
through
Kuvat garbage and samples their sewage.
 This rooster has been the most rambunctious tourist
of
the five. Since the Kuvat landed in May, heтАЩs been to
the pyramids and the Taj Mahal and the Eiffel Tower.
HeтАЩs crazy about zoos and disneys. He saw the third
game
of the ├п08 World Series and was a Special Guest at
the
Sixty-Sixth World Science Fiction Convention. He
seems
to be partnered with Kasaan, the scarecrow who is the
leader of the Kuvat expedition.
Bjorn has signed on to the theory that the roosters
are
scouting us and make detailed reports back to the
scarecrows, who rarely leave the compound weтАЩve built
around their starship. This theory is conveniently
unverifiable, since weтАЩre not allowed to follow
roosters
onto the starship.
When we pull up to the entrance of the Live Night
Mall,
Balfour herself gets onto the van. She nods at the
two
of us and then approaches the rooster.
"You will have an hour. IтАЩm afraid thatтАЩs as much as
we
can do, one hour. These two will accompany you for
one
hour. Anything you want, these two will obtain for
you.