SECTION TWENTY-NINE

In which you now know what everyone did when Carlos blew his whistle. SO LET’S FIND OUT WHAT HAPPENED NEXT! (EVEN IF IT’S A BIT SCARY.)

Up in the high grey tower, Brian knew the whistle was the signal to start THE DEFEAT P’KLAWZ AND RESCUE UNCLE SHAWN PLAN.

But Brian was looking into P’Klawz’s horrible shiny eyes and he felt his hooves were glued to the spot.

P’Klawz’s teeth were rattling and grinding like pebbles in a rusty dishwasher because the Institution was now so full of Unusualness. He was hissing at Brian, “Your nose is Unusual and – SKREEEEEEEEE your voice sounds Unusual and—” P’Klawz didn’t say anything else, because just then Brian’s pretend left hand fell to the floor. Splaff.

Then Brian’s other hand fell off. Sploff.

And Brian nearly ran away down the whirly stairs, but then he thought of Uncle Shawn and Bill and all his friends and he said, “I don’t know what you are talking about, Mr Doctor, sir.”

SKREEEEEEEEEEEEE went P’Klawz’s teeth. Loose hands were Very Unusual.

Then – according to the plan – Brian turned round and wiggled his big llama bottom.

SKREEEEEEEEEEEEE stop that at once! You are turning into a camel!”

Brian turned round again and made sure to sound very calm and puzzled when he said, “I do not know what you are talking about. I am a human person.”

“SKREEEEEEEEEEEEE.”

While Brian was speaking, the noise coming from the inmates who had escaped from the dormitories was getting more and more Unusual.

And clattering up the tower’s twirly stairs came Guinevere and Ginalolobrigida, singing a selection of the best verses from “Mi Corazón Esta Aplastado” and joined by Hamish and Peter, who were having more fun than they’d ever had in their lives.

At the sight of singing and dancing llamas, P’Klawz’s teeth ground against each other even harder.

SKREEEEEEEEEEE!

And sneaking into the office came Linvizzygirl. She picked several of P’Klawz’s certificates off the wall and held them up with her invisible hands and made them dance.

This was all Too Unusual for P’Klawz. He dived – SKREEEEEEEEEE! – under his desk to hide.

That was when the black, velvety carpet under his desk wooshed up and swallowed Dr P’Klawz up into a big velvety lump. Which was Pajimminy-Crimminy Unusual!

The spiders, under the command of clever Claude, had flattened themselves out – all holding hands – like a carpet under P’Klawz’s desk and now they had surrounded him.

From inside the spiders everyone could hear P’Klawz’s teeth –

SKREEEEEEEE!