Chapter Twenty-One
She knew only one way to solve the problem of getting Rex into the ship: she needed to take his harness apart and reassemble it inside.
She retrieved a blanket from inside and spread it out on the floor. Then she helped Rex onto it, and took off his arms and legs.
The body of the harness needed to come off, too, because with it, he was too heavy for her to carry.
While all this was happening, a number of homeless urchins came a bit further down the passage to watch while Tina took off the protective swaddling around the bottom of his body.
Rex didn’t like that.
“They're laughing at me," he said, lifting his head to glare at them.
"Just lie still, and I can do this quickly."
"I'm ridiculous. I look like a baby.”
Tina rolled him in a blanket, a sorry stump of a hu
