The construction crew consisted of Ratmen.
Not the local Ratmen of the Weeping Peninsula, however, but little rodents from the White City of Milansel. They were a more refined breed of Ratman, standing mostly at the same height as Melina, with slightly chubby, rounded faces and an overwhelming aura of hamsters.
Watching these safety-helmeted Ratmen working by the roadside while a few Banshees cleared the path ahead, Melina felt a strange sense of temporal dislocation.
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