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I said, "Wait Did you hear what the dog said just now?"
"Said? She barked"
"Ah Okay And when you look at the dog right now, she’s"
"Floatin’ a few feet off the floor"
You’d think the fact that other people could witness the weirdness would have coed already
"John and I need to have a word about this We’ll, uh, be right back"
On the way back to ht to the bakery counter at the grocery store"
"Dave, those guys could see her All the cops They saw her floatin’ around and doing supernatural shit That’s new"
"That’s new? Why is she floating at all, John?"
"Gotta be the sauce, right? She got more of it than any of us I was always aot to her finally"
"After all this time? None of this makes sense"
"Did you hear what she said?"
"She said, ‘I serve none but Korrok’"
Speaking that less word h I couldn’t pin dohy My mind almost made a connection, then abruptly steered clear of it nearly hard enough toout of ht she said, ‘I serve none but to rock’ I was about to agree with her"
"Whatever, John"
"So who’s Korrok?"
"Don’t know"
And keeping it that way is ot thearound in the glove compartment and pulled out a little roll of candies somebody had s Most of it I throw on a shelf in et
We went back to the front door of the house, and I shook one of the candies out into my palm I very slowly turned the knob and pushed the door in, just enough to leanwas about ten feet away, behind the couch and her incredibly hot nener I held out the candy, which iht Molly’s attention
I tossed the candy on the floor and quickly ducked back out Molly floated over to it, tilted in midair until her snout was just over the whiteJohn was about to supply the "it’s not working" when, with a wet, tearing KERRRAAAAACTCH sound, Molly exploded like a , invisible children
A couple of cops behind us cheered Drake walked up "What the hell was that?"
John answered for me "It was a TestaMint Little candies with Bible verses printed on theet the it would just drive the evil out of her, but" John shrugged, businesslike These things happen so clear I don’t want to hear anyattack Somebody’ll be here later to clean up the scene and there’ll be a funeral and all of these here o hoone crazy"
I said, "Yeah that’s probably for the best--"
Drake’s head snapped toward me
"Shut up I ain’t done"
Back to John he said, "Between you and ht?"
"Well, Dave’s dog But she’s belonged to several people"
"Hey Look in there He’s dead You understand shappen around here In this town Always have My daddy wore this uniform beforelike that"
John put up his hands defensively and said, "Neither have we"
"But the last tiot weird, you were there With the party and all those kids that died, the detective that left and never caames with me If you know somethin’, tell me Tell me so I can prepare for it"
John said, "We don’t know the situation Not yet"
On the word "yet" I had the urge to punch John in the kidneys
"But let us take a shot at the girl" We all glanced toward Krissy, still frozen on the sofa "Before the psychiatrist gets here or whoever you bring in to reboot people like her"
Drake stared John down, then decided to roll the dice "You got two h the front door Drake reached out and grabbed his elbow
"Hey"
"Yeah"
"This the end of the world?"
He said it in the earnest, stiff-jawedthe doc if it’s cancer It scared the fuck out of ive you a call if we find out"
John went to the couch, but I couldn’t resist stopping by the red, six-foot circle of dog mush