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"I hired you to dig a hole, not play around," Albert said

"It’s hard," one said "It keeps filling up"

"I know it’s hard It won’t get any easier And if you want to eat, you work"

"We were just taking a break"

"Break’s over Get on those shovels"

Albert turned and walked aith Ja you off, boss," Jalanced back and reported that they were

"As long as they do their work they can flip me off all they like," Albert said

It was then that Roscoe came up to report his haul from Hunter And to tell Albert a crazy story about Hunter’s shoulder biting him

"Look," Roscoe said and held out his hand for Albert’s inspection

Albert sighed "Save the crazy stories, Roscoe," he said

"It’s like, like, green, kind of," Roscoe said "I’m not the Healer or Dahra," Albert said

But as he walked away sohts: the wound really had looked a bit green

Someone else’s problem He had plenty of his own

It was then that he spotted soht be dead Far down the beach

He felt in his pocket for the lanced back at the still The hopeless still

His insides squirood Everyone was on edge, weird, freaked since Mary’s dramatic suicide and attempted mass murder

The people could not take another disaster But disaster was co And when it hit, if there was panic, then Sam would be needed here in town

But there was no one else Albert could trust with the o And Albert would have to hope that no new disaster arose while he was gone

Sam felt a shadow