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Mericlou returned ho in her step She intended to do soht, and maybe even play with Needles for awhile

She discovered -much to her utter shock and revulsion- that her work had already been more than cut out for her

The entire front yard was littered with an assortment of beer and wine bottles

The sht, as many of the bottles were half-e uncontrollably, and attracting every fly for ten miles She could see an assortment of skid marks on the street froest ti Her initial diser But helpless as she was angry, she could only glare at the horridfists

Fully in tears and unable to do anything else, Mericlou h she had no idea about who it was that did it, there was no doubt in her on would have dared to do soreater part of athe bottles fro the lawn in order to drown out so Needles' over-zealous encourageo take a ainst the wall in the shower stall, allowing her profuse tears towater "How …?"

She could hear distant peals of thunder as she cah the s of her rooht thein At least this was good news The rain would wash away the re her hair back into its usual pretty fall of ringlets, Mericlou felt the call of the co a towel about herself, she made her way into the den, and touched its orb

"Hello?"

At first, there was silence, but then, as if from behind an unseen shadow, a voice spoke, distant and harsh

We hope you like the little gift we left for you, freak!

The connection ended

The link was too brief for her to trace For aorb