Oooh...this is serving as a cruel reminder that I haven't read this book very recently, as my memory is a touch fuzzy on a detail here and there...

But a very good oneshot, and definitely a needed one. The book, as I recall, blurred over this detail, which I found to be surprising, as I'm sure events as they finally played out hit our favorite watchmaking mouse hard. So it's nice for the subject to finally be brought up. :)

I forget, would this be before or after Hermux proposed to Linka? I'm going to hazard a guess that it was before, if only just.

Man, if only I had the time to write something for this fandom myself... :

Anyway, good read. :)