Missing

At the meeting, it became clear that only the squirrels would miss the bi-peds when the cataclysm had ended. So many of the others talked about freedom and privacy and safety crossing the roads (safety above all for the ones that had littles), but the squirrels chattered away about nuts and corn cobs and easy access bird feeders. "You might have to do your own work going forward," the badger hissed at the one on the left (who was gesticulating wildly). "Forage. Dig. Climb and pick. All of that." "But they're so cute!" the squirrel continued. "Especially when they look out, see you ransacking a supposedly impossible to ransack feeder, and they scream and flail ... surely we're not the only ones that find that adorable?" They were, in fact, the only ones that found that adorable, and one of the deer kicked out at two of them as it left the circle, muttering, "Narcissists!" under its breath.