passing rapidly

As he'd been asleep for six hours before the first honking the cause is uncertain. After taking out two sheets on the top bunk and one on the bottom he was empty enough to sleep a couple more hours, then honked again after waking and taking a couple of exploratory sips. He spent breakfast on my knee, then returned to bed, then came downstairs to sleep on the sofa after being woken by Amos rattling the plastic bluebird. He was still asleep when Amos took his nap, so I popped out to Dalkeith to see if I could see the Vulcan, which came over in what was initially a puzzling direction until it turned out to have gone over Porty after leaving East Fortune, where Edgar could have been dragged if the route had been known in advance and if he hadn't been asleep.