The incident with the carving knife may have been a misunderstanding. That didn’t change anything.
They adapted quickly, learning to navigate with their ears, noses and tiny little canes.
Their first act was to rewire her coffee machine so that it exploded spectacularly one day. She suffered mild burns but chalked it up to an accident. The following day her toaster caught fire.
For the length of a mouse-life, she was tormented: her toilet spat bleach at her, her kitchen utensils moved draw every night.
Those three mice are legend among the rodents.
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