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"What does he want?"
"He wants so"
"I could kill him so fast," Janet said
"You could In like three seconds"
"He’s seen e can do Why isn’t he afraid?"
"He doesn’t seerowled
"I’ve never felt like this before," Janet said
"How do you feel?"
"Different I don’t have a word for it"
"Neither do I"
"I just suddenly feel like … things are happening right in front ofknows so," Janet said
"Does he? What does he know?"
"He knows some reason he doesn’t have to be afraid of us"
"What reason?" Bucky asked
"I don’t know Do you know?"
"I don’t know," Bucky said
"I don’t like not knowing"
"He’s just a dog He can’t know big things we don’t know"
"He should be very afraid of us" Janet hugged herself and sees we don’t know"
"He’s just alike one"
"We’re smart meat machines He’s a dumb one," Bucky said, but his uneasiness was of a kind he had never experienced before
"He’s got secrets," Janet said
"What secrets?"
"The big things he knows that we don’t"
"How can a dog have secrets?"
"Maybe he’s not just a dog"
"What else would he be?"
"Soo, I felt so good killing in the nude, so natural"
"Good," she echoed "Natural"
"Now I’m afraid," he said
"I’m afraid, too I’ve never been so afraid"
"But I don’t knohat I’m afraid of, Janet"
"Neither do I So we ’s unknowable to a rational intellect Right? Isn’t that right?"
"Then why isn’t the dog afraid of us?"
Bucky said, "He keeps staring I can’t stand the way he’s just staring It’s not natural, and tonight I learned what natural feels like This isn’t natural"
"It’s supernatural," Janet whispered
The back of Bucky’s neck was suddenly dath of his spine
Precisely when Janet spoke the word supernatural, the dog turned away frooing, going, going?" Janet wondered
"Maybe he was never there"
"I’ve got to knohere he’s going, what he is, what he knows," Janet said urgently, and hurried across the bedroo was gone
Janet ran to the head of the stairs "Here he is! Going down He knows so, he’s so, Bucky descended the stairs with Janet, and then hurried toward the back of the house
"Oh yeah, oh yeah, so knows, the dog"
An instant before they entered the faht that Charles would be there alive, Charles and Preston and Marcella and Antoine and Evangeline, all of them resurrected, furious, possessed of hideous supernatural powers that would s to his unknown
Fortunately, young Charles Arceneaux was the only one there, and he was still as dead as anyone had ever been
Seeing Charles dead and thoroughly dishtened like an overwound clock spring He was electrified by a sense of the uncanny, by a recognition of mysterious realms beyond his ken, by astonishment that the world had suddenly revealed itself to contain strange di, chanting, "Dog knows, knows, knows Dog sees, sees, sees Dog, dog, dog," and Bucky sprinted after them both, out of the Arceneaux house, across the veranda, into the rain He was not exactly sure how the appearance of the German shepherd in the bedroom doorway had led to this frantic chase, what it all meant, where it would end, but he knew as certainly as he had ever known anything that an event of a profound and e
He was not just nude, he was naked, vulnerable both physically and , flooded with e anyone and yet exhilarated They ran through the neighborly gate, into the backyard at the Bennet house, alongside the house toward the street, the dog in the lead, and Bucky heard hi has happened," and he was so disturbed by the desperation in his voice that he forced hi down the center of the street, not gaining on the dog but not falling behind, he was chanting, "Kill the pizza guy, kill the pizza guy," and though he had no idea what that meant, he liked the sound of it