Dear Laura,
Hello, I am a Micro Ettin and I am constantly made fun of for being so short. I've been hiding in the Norn Terrarium to get away from the other Ettins, but the Norns are too stupid to answer me! They eat all the food and disconnect all my machines... What should I do?
- Circle
Dear Circle,
Don?t your fellow Ettins realise that good things come in small packages? There are many mechanical jobs, onboard the Ark, that you could do within a fraction of the time it takes the other Ettins to disassemble and reassemble the access panels. You?re small enough to clamber into the air vents and evict the pesky Mossie flies who?ve escaped from the Jungle Terrarium and built their nests in there. You could also eradicate the seemingly minor issue of the Grendel smell, which often wafts into the Norn Terrarium. Where it would normally take a week to re-route the ducts, you could accomplish this in a single afternoon by having direct access, and without leaving grease strains on the deck.
So stand tall, (please, pardon the pun) and demonstrate to those bullies what an invaluable engineer your size allows you to be.
- Laura