"Oh?
"Yeah. What happened to Mousse? How did it kill him, and why were they looking at one another afterwards?
"Oh, that, Sam said, shrugging. "I figure when Mousse managed to finally chew the thing out of the root it had been embedded in, whatever connection it still had to the cabal we all just escaped from grounded itself through his brain. I guess he spit the thing out after that, and it rolled under that bush. But if Cheney and his people got a final jolt when that happened, all they'd see was the last few minutes of the dog that had done them in.
"The one that buried them, so to speak.
"Uh-huh. Thank dog.
The End
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