"Good luck with waiting", Sphix said. "Do you have any idea how long it took that rat to go under the box the first time around?. If you think it is stupid enough to not to be at least wary now, think again." She remembered the feeling she had got of the rats earlier, and for all this particular rodent had looked completely ordinary and hadn't raised any reason for worry, she couldn't quite get rid of the sense that there was something unusual about the rats. The last thing she was going to do was underestimate one of them.