O aks …

»Push! Push! Push!« Llama and Nigel are shouting in chorus.

»Hey, I am not pregnant and I am not giving birth here«, I snap back.

»I see you've all never been with a woman giving birth.« Kylie is shaking her head.

»Push the buttons! Push the buttons!« Llama and Nigel are now whispering in unison.

»Well«, I take in a deep breath. »Bodies and feet away from that door. Let's do it.«

I close my eyes.

»How dramatic«, I can hear the llama's comment whispered in my ears.

I press the new discovered elevator buttons and…

Nothing happens.

»Oh, bummer, bummer«, the llama almost spits out.

»Again?« Kylie asks. »Looks like this elevator is bringing us nowhere.«

Professor Sideburns takes another step closer to the elevator panel and another closer look.

»May I ask a question?« he asks.

»Damage already done, Claude Burnside«, the llama remarks coldly.

»You know, you can still ignore the animal, don't you, Professor?« I sigh.

»I just wondered, what is that slot underneath the E-xecute button?« the archaeologist asks his second question within only a few moments.

All five of us holding breathes again. Tension is rising.

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Today is Friday, the 7th of October 2022.

Too much teasing.

Two-thousand-eighteen Shades Of Bromford - Part 223

Today is Monday, the 3rd of October 2022.

There used to be a kind of tradition with one animal meeting the previous one.
When did I skip this tradition? Maybe when all these cats showed up?
I think cats should be replaced by dragons. Dragons burning and feasting on goats.

Or... on blind apes?

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"Bromford Hillbilly"

Well I said goodbye to Rosie Rooke this morning,
I'm gonna miss her bloodshot alcoholic eyes,
She wore her Sunday hat so she'd impress me,
I'm gonna carry her memory 'til the day I die.

They'll move me up to Bromford Hill tomorrow,
Photographs and souvenirs are all I've got,
They're gonna try and make me change my way of living,
But they'll never make me something that I'm not.

Cos I'm a Bromford Hillbilly boy,
But my heart lies in old West Virginia,
Never seen New Orleans, Oklahoma, Tennessee,
Still I dream of the Black Hills that I ain't never seen.

They're putting us in identical little boxes,
No character just uniformity,
They're trying to build a computerised community,
But they'll never make a zombie out of me.

They'll try and make me study elocution,
Because they say my accent isn't right,
They can clear the slums as part of their solution,
But they're never gonna kill my cockney pride.

Cos I'm a Bromford Hillbilly boy,
But my heart lies in Old West Virginia,
Though my hills, they're not green,
I've seen them in my dreams,
Take me back to those Black Hills,
That I ain't never seen.

Well I'm a Bromford Hillbilly boy,
But my heart lies in Old West Virginia,
Though my hills, they're not green,
I've seen them in my dreams,
Take me back to those Black Hills,
That I ain't never seen.

W ackys ...

»Nothing happened. What a surprise!«

The llama's mouth is looking like the squeezed one of an unsatisfied frog. Kermit the frog, maybe.

»There are not even blue lights for those arrows. But Mister Bibble must press the elevator walls«, the llama continues.

»If I may add one or two thoughts«, Professor Sideburns says.

I nod in his direction to signal him to go on and ignore the llama's annoyed sounds.

»The hidden message said, Open here, not Press here.«

»Interesting«, Nigel says stroking his non-existing beard.

But what could I possibly open here? I am knocking against the elevator's metallic wall, right next to the buttons on the panel.

»Sounds kind of hollow there«, Kylie says.

»Hollow, smollow«, the llama adds.

There must be a trick, a twist of some kind.

»Would you hold the treasure map for me?« I ask the Professor. »Right here where it is covering the buttons on the panel.«

Now with both hands free I am touching the places the arrows on the map are marking.

»Feels like two hidden flap openings«, I say.

»Very specific, dude«, the llama comments.

Using my fingernails I am opening the flaps upwards… to find… two hidden blue lightened buttons.

»Hallelujah!« the llama remarks.

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Today is Saturday, the 1st of October 2022.

Open Hear.