"A week?" He gasps, bringing his hands up to cover the side of his face. He can only imagine being stuck like this for such an extended period of time. What will he explain to work? How will he explain this to anyone else? And what of the stumbling into something with Rat?

He lets out a sigh of despair.

"A week seems like an awfully long time," he grumbles, in the forlorn way kids do when they aren't getting their way.