human
Food! Food! There is a way out!
gpt
What do you mean by saying there is a way out?
human
He who died here just after I came, told me, replied An-Tak.
gpt
He said there was a way out, that he had discovered it but was too weak to use his knowledge. He was trying to tell me how to find it when he died. Oh, Luata, if he had lived but a moment more!
human
They do not feed you here?
gpt
No, they give me water once a day--that is all.
human
But how have you lived, then?
gpt
The lizards and the rats, replied An-Tak.
human
The lizards are not so bad; but the rats are foul to taste. However, I must eat them or they would eat me, and they are better than nothing; but of late they do not come so often, and I have not had a lizard for a long time. I shall eat though, he mumbled.
gpt
I shall eat now, for you cannot remain awake forever. He laughed, a cackling, dry laugh.
human
When you sleep, An-Tak will eat.