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"Yeah, but it’s two in theducks for any hellhounds that h the university campus where there are no streets"

"Yet plenty of sidewalk"

Osh grabbed the shovels out of the back and followed us to Lacey’s grave

"Hey, guys," she said with a wave "Who’s the hunk?"

Osh grinned, and if the departed could blush, she would have

"Um, sorry I didn’t know you could hear me"

"Not at all Which one?"

"Oh Over here"

Lacey led Osh to her gravesite

Cookie and I lagged behind, partly so I could ask her so Osh would do all the work

"Have you noticed anything strange about your daughter?" I asked Cook, not certain how to bring up tonight’s event

"So?"

I chuckled and relayed what had happened at the carnival to an astonished Cookie

"Yeah, I was right there, too" I stopped her and put a hand on her arm "She’s special, Cook And I don’t mean a little I think ere destined toto sohter’s life"

Cookie sat on a headstone, and while normally that would be a tad profane, I understood her need to sit down "I don’t knohat to say"

"I don’t either I was floored, Cook She was a And those cards? Where did she learn to do that?"

"I asked her that, too"

"And?"

"Prison, apparently"

"She’s such a sel andeither," I said in warning "I need lookouts, not make-outs Got it?"