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"It’s an RM in a residential neighborhood"

The phone went silent "How bad?"

"It went fro, not counting the legs"

"Sit tight We’ll be there in half an hour"

Experience said it would be et I dialed Cutting Edge Derek answered, his voice raspy "Cutting Edge"

"Can younow"

"Thanks Is Ascanio there?"

"Ready and willing," Ascanio said into the phone

"Call the Dunwoody Police Departainst the Oswalds on Chaave him the address

"Yes, Consort"

Either it was force of habit or he was jerking arage A toolbox sitting by the wall yielded a pair of needle-nose pliers Perfect

I found Curran outside He had turned into a hu covered in sli to rinse his mouth out with a hose

"Did it taste that bad?"

"You have no idea This goo doesn’t wash off ater alone I tried"

"Let lanced at me I lifted the pliers and made pinch motions with them

"Are we done?" he asked

"No We have to wait here until Biohazard shows up"

"Why? It’s dead"

I sighed and sat on the stairs in front of the door "Because it exhibited reani dead, it turned into so else and came back to life It also went cross-phyluood chance it e, like a terrestrial octopus shooting lightning from its tentacles"

"Why don’t we just set it on fire and scatter the ashes?"