"Rhose would unfortunately be the..." Javert blinked at who had spoken. The hare was actually... The warnings had spoken of hallucinations but even so, speaking animals was the sort of thing one did not associate seeing things with due to being deprived of any contact. It would be entirely new.

"And I am hardly drunk." he agreed. It was far too early, and he was not one who drank at any rate. "My thanks then. I had not expected it to take me by so much surprise."