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Shaun saw Mika dash down the stairs a sodden state, and considered the irony that in his new clothes he was actually bone dry. Well, apart from his hair and the hair on his legs which was now out of view. He practiced walking back and forth; he hadn't had to mock up feet for himself in some time. His gait was not entirely natural (for a human that is), but he could blame it on an old construction injury. Easier than explaining goat legs anyway.

He replaced a few fragments of the broken floorboard and folden the soaked carpet over it so it was out of sight. Then he heard footsteps reaching top of the slightly further away staircase and stood bolt upright, leaning against the wall so as to make himself as wide an obstacle to vision as possible. Thankfully the first person to emerge was Maya, so before her guest came into view he waved and gestured frantically, indicating for him to show the house at the bottom end of the hall first until Mika returned and they could fabricate a plausible explanation for the state of the carpet.