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“I don’t deal with dead bodies” Howard

“I guess we could, you know, send them back to town for Edilio to bury,” Dekka said

Taylor sighed “Things are bad back there I’ve never seen Sam like that I mean, he’s just…”

Dekka said, “He’ll get over it” She didn’t sound too sure of that “But yeah, maybe this isn’t the time to ask him to speak at a burial”

“Maybe we could just cover them up You know, haul Mickey over here,for now”

“Yeah One of

these cars around hereGet Orc to pop some trunks open, huh?”

Which was how Brittney ended up nestled next to Mickey, under the shelter of a painter’s drop cloth

She felt no pain

She saw no light

She heard, but barely

Her heart was still and silent

Yet she did not die

Albert had no tioldoff with Cookie

They’d found Sam listless, not as mad as either of them had expected He’d listened with his eyes closed and a couple of tiht have nodded off