TA-3 Research Drilling Station: Shower and Sanitation Facility

A short, stubby tail gave a faint, irritated twitch. Attached to the tail was a stocky behind, a pair of hind legs, and a pair of arctic boots that completed the view.

General Marvin Huxley was down on all fours, gently tapping his way along a frost-covered pipe with a hammer. His remaining tools were laid out in a neat, deliberate line beside him.

Tap, tap… crack! A lump of ice and biomass gave way somewhere inside the pipe.

Huxley muttered to himself in quiet satisfaction.

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