The gang raced across the city in an old army truck, with Lapinette at the wheel. Skratch was wondering where Lapinette had
learned navigation and decided it was something to do with the Wabbit. In that
he was quite mistaken, because Lapinette had trained with the Goito Mechanised
Brigade and sported several badges of Merit. While Skratch looked around fruitlessly for a
safety belt, Lapinette hummed a tune and crashed gears, wearing a set expression that Skratch found alarming. "What’s that tune?" said
Skratch, cheerfully. "Red Barchetta*," growled Puma. Skratch
made a vibrating sound reserved entirely for cats and quickly changed the
subject. "What exactly are we doing?" Skratch braced himself between the floor and the roof. Lapinette
gunned the throttle, gritted her teeth and swerved. "Taking the big key to a place of
safety." "Where?" asked Puma. "Don’t
know," said Lapinette and she span the streeing wheel. "What about the Wabbit?" asked
Skratch. Lapinette suddenly struck her paw on the horn and kept it there. The
blast shook the windows, then wailed across the rooftops. "What was that for?" asked Skratch." "Signal." said Lapinette.
[*Red Barchetta is a song by Rush, celebrating the two seater sports car, the Barchetta (Little boat)]