 Why are the Kar-Rah shouting "Kaalleee tik tik tik!"?
A scream of brakes, the splash into icy waters, a long descent into alkaline depths ... "Kaalleee! Tik!... Kaalleee!..." Tik, tik, tik!..." Tik, tik, tik!..." Loy Chuk had flown his geological expedition out from the far lowlands to the east, out from the city of Kar-Rah. Loy Chuk and his fellow workers were gathered, tense and gleeful, around the things their digging had exposed to the daylight. Far out in a deep valley, Kar-Rah, the city of the rodents, came into view—a crystalline maze of low, bubble-like structures, glinting in the red sunshine. There was a muffled murmur around him, as of some vast, un-Earthly metropolis.
 They are exuberating in their discovery of a human
 They are warning each other of a potential predator  They are praising Loy Chuk for his accomplishment  They are attempting to reconvene after being separated  They are exuberating in their discovery of a human