"Hi!" Kralk jumped, startled. He'd nearly drifted off to sleep waiting for
the damn squirrel. It took him a few seconds to reorient.

"So what did you want to show me, hmm?" Teral asked, flicking his tail and
quivering slightly. He hopped up on the workbench and flitted around the
device, trying to figure out what it did. "Sorry I took so long, I had to
make sure they knew what to do with the bus."

"The bus?"

"Yep. And I got distracted fixing up the new BUNIX. That was what took so 
long." He glanced down at his screen and winced. "Ouch. Sorry about that.
So what does it do?"

Kralk shrugged into the device, wearing it like a bckpack, and held the
nozzle in one hand. He pointed it at Teral, who darted closer to look inside.
His finger hovered over the switch... and he turned it to point at the row
of Barney dolls he'd set up on a shelf. Teral cringed at the sight -- who had
brought these icons of evil cuteness into the warren? [shudder]

"I think you'll be impressed." He pushed the switch, and with a deafening
roaring, shredding noise a dozen of the purple dolls were sucked in, one 
by one, leaving not a trace of stuffing or purple cloth. Teral stood there, 
frozen, staring at the empty shelf.

Kralk switched it off. "I call it the BunnySucker."

"Impressive," Teral said, "But I don't see how it would translate to squirrel
scale. If it were small enough to carry it wouldn't be big enough to work."

"It's intended for use by humans," Kralk explained, "It's simple to build,
and effective even without training. You just have to get close and the
suction does the rest."

"But what would we do with human weapons? [chitter]" Teral looked uneasy.

"You do have humans on your side, don't you?"

"We tried. [chitter] But most of our relations with humans lately have 
 been... [flick]"

"Have been..."

"Just a second. [flick] I just remembered something." Teral bounced to the
door and raced out into the hall.