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‘Well, why not? Here, care to pick the bones?’

‘Possibly What was it originally?’

‘Cat, of course’

‘Cat Oh yes, of course Well, I never liked cats anyway All those hair balls’ He drew the plate over and perused it to see as left

‘You have a fascination for feline genitalia? That’s disgusting, although I’ve heard worse One of our minor catchers once tried to marry a rat I myself possess peculiar interests, I freely ad a vertebra into his mouth to suck out the marrow

‘Well, aren’t you curious?’

‘No,’ he said around the bone ‘Should I be?’

Rucket slowly leaned forward, as if seeing Bugg for the first time ‘You… interest me now I freely admit it Do you want to knohy?’

‘Why you freely adht’

‘I’s considered’

‘Well, I a somewhat surprised’

‘That doesn’t surprise ht, and what’s that insect? There, on your shoulder?’

He pulled the vertebra out and reached for another ‘It’s of the two-headed variety Very rare, for what I iht my master would like to see it’

‘So you permit it to crawl all over you?’

‘That would take days It’s ed to climb from halfway up my arm to my shoulder and that’s taken over a bell’

‘What a pathetic creature’

‘I suspect it has difficultyfunny, aren’t you? I have a thing for funny people Why don’t you come home with me after you’ve finished there’

‘Are you sure you don’t have any business to discuss with me? Perhaps some news for Tehol?’

‘Well, there’s alots of people, although less so lately And Gerun Eberict has been far busier than it would outwardly seem’

‘Indeed? But ould he hide that fact?’

‘Because the killings do not appear to be politically motivated’

‘Oh? Then what are his motivations?’