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Speaker 1: Hello, I'm welcomed stories all the time. Glad you are here.

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Let's get into it Mark chapter five, verse twelve. The

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demons implored him, saying, send us into the swine so

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that we may enter them. Nelson Kearney directed the trailer

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towards the barn door his son Seth was opening. Henry.

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The driver leaned out of the window, rolling on his

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eyes rather than the mirrors in which objects are closer

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than they appear. He wasn't worried about backing into the barn.

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His concern was running over Nelson, who insisted on guiding

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him and always stood far too close, dangerously close. All right,

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that's good, Nelson hollowed. Dylan Rubio, Nelson's hired hand and

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the son of his longtime neighbor, came around the barn

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carrying two large pieces of cardboard. He handed one to Seth.

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The driver slid down and walked around the trailer. Seth

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and Dylan moved in on opposite sides of the ramp,

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holding their pieces of cardboard like walls to funnel the

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new passel of piglets into the barn. The driver unlocked

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the ramp and let it drop, kicking up a swirling

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cloud of white gravel dust. The piglet should have been

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tumbling over one another to leave the trailer, but stillness

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lurked behind the cloud. The high afternoon sun made the

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shadows in the trailer pitch black. By contrast. Possessing the

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worst vision in the group, Nelson listened as one by

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one the three other men made exclamations of disgust and horror.

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Nelson cupped his hands to the sides of his eyes

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beneath his cap, and stepped up on to the ramp

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to look closer. Ah, don't go in there, the driver said.

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Through the settling cloud, Nelson witnessed a grotesque site. The

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floor of the trailer awashed with blood, in which strings

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of organic tissue and bits of pig flesh floated. The

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gory bits of almost three dozen piglets were strewn throughout

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like chunks of stew. The stench rising from the mussacre

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does not need to be described. How did this happen?

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Seth wondered aloud. The driver novously shook his head and shrugged.

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I ay, I don't know what to say, guys, I

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just I don't understand, Seth. Get my damp last light

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Nelson demanded, furious. His difficulty seen only made him angrier.

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Seth dropped his cardboard and ran into the bar. The

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cardboard stood on its edge for an unusual length of time. Suddenly,

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superstitious Dylan eyed it until it finally fell over. Blood

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had begun trailing down the ramp and soaking the gravel.

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The corner of Seth's cardboard drank it up. There is

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still something moving in thearer, Nelson said, wavering. He took

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a step back and his boots slept a little in

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the blood. Seth returned with a flashlight. He used it

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himself to look into the trailer. It looked like a

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scene from Hellwazer. Inside. Not one animal had been left

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hole except look one survived, Seth said, pointing to where

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Nelson had noticed movement. A tiny piglet was getting covered

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in blood as it climbed, slid, and swung towards them.

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I wonder if a hulk or something managed to swoop

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in through the gaps. The driver speculated. A team of

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mongose couldn't have done this much damage. Nelson fired back.

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The driver raised his hands, sir, I'm sorry, obviously, I'm

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going to bring another load over her first chance. I'm

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just saying, it's just a freak thing, that's all. Could

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you just get this out of here, Seth theft Dylan

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ushered the surviving piglet toward the barn, but it stopped

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short of going inside. Yea, yea, said the driver, adjusting

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his snap back. I'm sorry about the mess. I'll bill you.

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His eyes went to the piglet. Yea, we'll keep this one.

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Just get going, Nelson said. The driver nodded shortly and

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hurried to his truck. After he left, and the ghastliness

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with him, the farmer's attention shifted to the lone piglet.

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He found its sighs irritating. He had not ordered any

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runts yet. Somehow the runt had survived whatever happened to

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all of its bigger brothers and sisters, and completely unharmed.

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No less must be some kind of special pig, Nelson said,

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mostly joking. He warn't too well out here on his own,

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but I'm worried about putting him in with the adults. Well,

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I guess we could keep him at the house, Seth suggested.

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Nelson took off his hat to scratch his scalp, then

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replaced it slightly crooked and nodded. We still have been

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his cage somewhere, he asked, Yeah, in the garage, I think,

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said Seth. Benny was their Dutch shepherd who passed away

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the year before. They had since replaced him to the

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extent a pet can be replaced with a German shepherd

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poppy name Tie tired his own brand Nucreates, since Benny's

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was way too big, but Seth remembered his mother Abby,

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insisting they keep Benny's cage for when Tie out grew.

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His perage will get too cold at night, said Nelson.

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Feel get that cage inside and find the spot for

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it away from the windows. I'll bring in a heater

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when I come. Or Dylan, why don't you grab a

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heater and follow us out up to the house. I've

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got to call the supplier and see if we can

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figure out just what the hell happened. Nelson's eye settled

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on the blood stained piglet their eyes met. The animal

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held his gaze and seemed to lean in as if

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searching him. He searched back, discovering a much deeper intelligence

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than he expected to find. YEA, whatever you need, Dylan said.

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The piglet's eyes shifted to him. He gave it a

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wide berth as he slipped into the barn. He emerged

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from the back door a minute later with a rectangular

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red lamp and carried it to the house with haste.

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What makes you so lucky, Nelson asked the piglet. He

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knelt down scratch it behind the ears. Is there something

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special about you, piggy? What makes you so lucky? Ha?

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I'd probably name yo lucky if we named our pigs

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around here. I'm sure you understand why we don't, Nelson swore.

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The piglet nodded. He looked at it stunned, then shook

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his own head. The pickle couldn't understand him. It was

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a coincidence, however, the nuance of its expressions exceeded that

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of some young children. Nelsenthal he had little experience with

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the young children, but he had plenty of experience with

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young pigs, and he knew for certain there was different

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about Luckey. Don't call him that Seth situated Benny's cage

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next to the TV in the living room, near enough

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the window to get some sunlight, but too far to

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be affected by the chilly draft that blew in at

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night I be his mother heard him carry the rattling

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cagun from the garage and ask what he was doing.

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That wants me to set it up for the pigle.

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At that Seth Triltov, realizing he had just earned the

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responsibility of telling his mother about the horrific delivery. He said,

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the delivery didn't turn upright. They're goin to figure out

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what happened and make another one later. One pig lived, though,

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and At wants it to stay inside until the rest

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of the parcel shows up. One laved. Well on now,

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just what happened to the rest? They're going to figure

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it out? Seth dodged. Well, is this miracle pig all right?

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I think so Dad's got him? Dylan walked in with

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the heater. He set it down next to the cobble

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coated cage and looked up at the ceiling. How do

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you want to hang this? Seth looked to Abby. Abby

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raised her hands, abstaining from participation, and left the room.

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Nelson walked in a while later holding a piglet wrapped

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in a blanket. Its wrinkled eyelids were closed in deep

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re luxation. Tied the German shepherd puppy erupted with fisious box.

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He charged toward Nelson with his teeth beard. Nelson jammed

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his fot out with thankful for his boot steel toe,

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and warded the ferocious poppy off. Abby. Will you come

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lock this dog up? Eh? Let me see it, Abby

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croned the moment she saw the pigot. Is it a

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boy or a girl? Boy? Nelson answered. He passed it

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to his wife, but warned, don't get attached. I'm already

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bringing him here to keep him warm before the rest

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show up. His one and did nothing to stop Abby

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from instantly falling in love. He saw the same look

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in her eyes he had seen when she held Seth

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as a baby. While his wife gender rocked the blanketed

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bundle Nelson carral tie and to his cage in the

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dining room. The puppy went in with his tail between

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his legs and turned to beg Nelson to reconsider it

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with wide wet eyes. Nelson clocked at him and scratched

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one of his ears through the cage. It's just for

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a night or two, boy, He's not here to have you.

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Seth and Dylan went back to work after Mountain Dehito

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with the hook in the ceiling and cleaning Benny's cage.

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Abbey said she would get the pikelet settled, so Nelson

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left to supervise the younger man. Before he went, Abbey

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stopped him. What's his name, Sheath, don't give him her name, Abby,

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you'll get attached. He's living in our house, Nelson, I

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want to call him something other than the pick. Nelson

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scratched the back of his neck inside out the nesting piglet,

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ranging old tails in the cage. He said, if you

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really need a name, call him Lackey. That night, Abby

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made sure that Heito was turned on and whispered good

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night to Lockie. Lucky could not take his eyes off

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of the red bulb dangling above him. You like it,

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Abby asked, turning to stare into the bulb herself. She

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did not enjoy the sinister red light the heater cast

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about the living room, but she thought the bulb itself

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was pretty, like a magic ruby she would have read

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about as a child. Lucky squeal. Abby looked down. The

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piglet had backed into a corner and curled into itself,

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still his eyes focused on the heat. Abbey memoris the

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way the red light gleaned off his big dark eyes. Suddenly,

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Locke exploded out of the corner and headitted the cage

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hard enough to make Abbe fall backward the colding the

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heater broke out of the sea ling. The heater crashed

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on top of Locke's cage, hard enough to bend it,

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but fortunately most of the cage was stood impact and

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protected him. If Abby had been there, though, who knows

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the damage the heavy lamp could have done to her

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head neck, where both the bulb probably would have shadowed

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on her skull. She imagined sharp knives of glass sliding

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down her face across her eyes. Test started barking. What happened?

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Nelson yelled as he charged into the living room in

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his underwhere Abbi stammered, aye he that, then, finally said,

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Lockie saved me. Nelson, taking in the damaged to war,

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he lifted the heater off of the cage and sat

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it down, only gently enough to prevent the bulb from

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shuttering at least the runs Okay, Abby said, did you

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hear me? He saved me? That little baby could push

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me away right before the lamp fell. Nelson looked at

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Locky and recognized the deep intelligence he had noticed before.

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He wondered why it sim God insisted upon convincing him

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this piglet was special he had obviously convinced Abbey or

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read hang on, Nelson said, and he went to go

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come tied down. The dog refused to be quieted, and

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Nelson had to send him outside, even with the back

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door closed, at her continue barking and howling. Shut up,

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Nelson yelled, then returned to the living room to deal

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with the man. Ubygradled lucky while her husband cleaned up.

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He tried to conjure a simple solution for hanging the heater.

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He had a couple of ideas, but felt far too

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tired to go out to the shop and construct something.

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It was Abby who shared the winning idea, an idea

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was only one because Nelson was too tired and defeated

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to fight against it. Let's just put him in our room.

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It's always warm in there. Yes. Thanks to their warm

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boders in the bedroom's central position, the bedroom did turned

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to whole steady two of preadegrees above the rest of

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the house. Nelson gave in, but only one night. He said.

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In the morning, I'll rig something up no better. I'll

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make Seth do it right after he fixes the ceiling.

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When Nelson finally let Hie back inside the puppy sniff

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theory o where Locke's cage had been, then went to

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bed peacefully, but he was the only one. Nelson and

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Abby spent all night weaving through disjointed nightmares. Nelson whipped

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twice into it, and once well awake, he heard Abby

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crying softly both times. When he woke, Lucky was watching

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them head cocked, intelligent eyes, frogsed weird pig, Nelson thought

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to himself as he slipped back into a world of

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terror and torment. Locke's miracles continued. The next day. Abby

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sent Hie outside so she could let the pidlet roam

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around the house freely, while Cephap had the ceiling quiet

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and seething. After a turn lashing, Abby was glad she

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missed Lucky helped him. If you don't believe that, it's fine,

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Abby and Seth couldn't believe it either. Locke seemed to

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know which till Seth needed it exactly the right moment.

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Whenever Seth reached down, whatever he was reaching for was

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waiting for him in Lockey's tiny mouth, and a piglet

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would offer it to him with little creases in the

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corners of his eyes like he was smiling. Abby spent

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the rest of the day ad owing and training Lockie.

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He fascinated her. Nelson had told her again and again

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how intelligent pigs are, but never had she seen one

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behave like Lockie. Lockie seemed not only to want to help,

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but enjoy it. The only issue that arose happened when

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Lockey relieved himself entaied cage. Worse, he left his mess

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on tiz dog bed, and to top it all, drug

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TI's favorite shee toy stuffed monkey that wasn't much more

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than a rag anymore for his muddy excrement. Strangely, he

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showed no interest in tis cage or toys before or

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after this incident. Abby, though she assigned everything else the

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piglet did to miraculous intelligence, viewed the dog bed desecration

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as nothing more than a simple mistake and misunderstanding. She

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did nothing to discipline the piglet and decided not to

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mention the incident to Nelson or Seth. Abbey fell in

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love with Locke. She refused to let Nelson move his

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cage out of their bedroom aft at the turbulent first night,

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so they spent a second night being and a lockey's eye.

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Nelson had more nightmares, and then there was Ti. Ti

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simply refused to stop going out after Lockie. Nelson was

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nervous to leave the unpuppy outside so often, specially alone,

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but there to leave him out until Lucky was in

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his cage for the night, or else if Abby turned

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her back for a moment, he would tear the piglet

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limb from limb. Lockie spent all day following Abbey around

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as she performed various tasks. He sat in her lap

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at the dining room table while she made some business

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calls and responded to emails from customers. Kearney Farms supplied

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a small army of loyal locals with pork and vegetables.

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Abbey hoped the terrible delivery delay would not set them

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back too far. That evening, she prepared a hearty salad

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for dinner. She let Lucky snort and sniff around her

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feet as she rinsed the lettuce, chopped the tomatoes and

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hard boiled eggs, and crumbled the cheese. But when it

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came time to prepare the bacon free oven. She sent

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Lockie out of the kitchen. She could not look into

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his gleeful face while letting out his future. When the

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oven reached four hundred degrees, Abbey set the tray of

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BiCon on one rack and a pan of tomatoes lice's

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destin olive oil on the other. She must have set

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up the oven this exact way two dozen times before

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and had never experienced an issue. But this time she

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smelt smoke almost right away, thinking perhaps a bit of

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food from a prime meal was burning on the element.

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Abby turned down the fan above the slov and the

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ceiling fan before donning her oven gloves and opening the

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oven door to check wicked flints enveloped her. They burst upward,

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sending her tumbling into the cupboards, then retreated back into

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the oven, where they flickered. Infested in sinister contempt. Abby

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felt rot, but otherwise fine. She did not see any

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injuries to herself, beside some light burns on her forms

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where the gloves ended. Nelson Frre, Abbey shouted, wondering if

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Nelson was anywhere near enough to hear her. She thought

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of the fire extinguisher under the sinkin dove for the cabinet.

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The oven contained the fire for the moment, but the

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flames caught the bick and grease. Gobs of sticky lava

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dropped from the pan onto the bottom of the oven,

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where this blasted spread. The smoke puffing out of the

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oven darkened, thickened, and grew. Abbey pulled the pin on

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the fire extinguisher and squeezed the lever, but only disappointing

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hiss in the pathetic spatter of solution came out of

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the house. Two smoke detectives activated, one after the other. No, no,

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Desperate Abby looked that the yellowed had canning near her fingers.

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The fire extinguisher was two years expired. What next? What

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am I supposed to do? Water? No? Not for a

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grease fire? A blanket maybe? Or oh I should close

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the door. Nelson burst him through the back door. He

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yelled for Abby, then saw her hazy colors through the

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black cloud of smoke, and rushed in. Shut the door.

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Shut the door, he boked, I already am Abby yelled back.

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Nelson held the oven door slam shut. Did you unbugget

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nohritz on fire? Can ye know it's on fire? Suddenly

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every light went black, and the fans stopped worrying. The

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only light came from the glowing oven window, and it

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wasn't enough to illuminate Abby two feet away through the

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smoke screen. All right, time to go, Nelson shipped, No, Dad,

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it's okay, Seth said, Summer, I just shut off the

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main brake. Oh, Nelson said, good thinking. Abby yelt, I

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think the flames are almost dead now. She was right,

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they would imminently be cast into darkness. Nelson said hoarsely,

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that's good, but we really shouldn't be in here with

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all this smoke. Let's all step out and open the

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place up. From outside, he heard Abbey shuffling and wondered

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just why it was so dark. None of the curtains

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had been drawn, and there was still some evening light

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outside that should have been visible even through the terrible smoke.

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Abby suddenly stopped and shouted, Lucky, I'll help you find him, mom,

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Seth said, from somewhere else, Nelson growled, Oh, leave the

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damn pick. He'll find his way out when we open

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up the house. Abby yell, what if he can't make it,

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he's so oh, his poor little lungs, Lucky Nelson stepped

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forward and bumped into Seth. Seth nearly fell out of sight,

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but Nelson grabbed him and pulled him close enough to whisper,

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you go outside and see if that pig already got out.

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I don't want you this, Seth said, died. I'm fine.

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You're the one who should. Really, twenty seven years a

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smoker didn't kill these lungs. I'll be fine. Just get

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out there and open up some airways. Seth might have

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responded non verbally before leaving, but Nelson could not tell.

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He felt his way into and through the kitchen, trying

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to catch up with Abby. Abby was in the living room,

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still searching for her little piglet, and terrified she was

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already too late to save him. She could not believe

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how much smoke had poured out of the oven, nor

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how quickly it was truly blinding. Now, with her eyes open,

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she could barely see her own hand out in front

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of her, but she kept her as closed most of

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the time to keep the burning smoke out. She remembered

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the day a fire for To visited her elementary school

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and instructed the kids to get low if they were

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ever in a fire. Smoke rises he had said, so,

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the most breathable errors near the ground. Abby got on

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all fours and began to crawl. Then she heard it, faintly,

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the soft patter of tiny ves. She crawled in their direction,

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calling for Lucky. Relieved, she heard the patter again, but

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now it was behind her somehow Loggi. She stopped, afraid

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she might move further away from her piglet. His trotting

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footsteps sounded again, this time impossibly traveling up the wall

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to Abbey's left. They continued across the ceiling. Abby looked up,

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forcing her eyes open, but could still see nothing through

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the smoke and increasing darkness. Nelson, where are you? She

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called out, Right behind you? I think, Nelson returned, He coughed.

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His voice came from only a few feet away. How

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do we get lost in our own house? Why is

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it so dark? Abby asked. She coughed too, I was

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wondering the same thing. The next round of scurrying whos

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came from the floor again, but they were lighter and

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faster than before. They sounded more like a squirrezden a piglets.

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What was there, Nelson asked? Abby said, I thought it

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was Lucky, but now I'm not sure. Then a slow

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beat of heavy steps came from up ahead, coming closer.

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Abby forced herself to open her eyes again. Is that

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you Nelson, She quavered. He said, I thought it was you, Seth,

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but no response came from the coiling, smoky blackness head.

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Dylan and his father Sunny Rubio bounced up the gravel

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road on their way back from town. Sonny snapped his

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fingers and pointed a head through the windshield. You're seeing

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smoke from the caerness, he asked his son. Dylan squinted

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and leaned forward. Then, as his eyes widened, well that's

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a lot of smoke. Dad, drive gravel necked at the

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pickups under carriage as they sped down the cairn his driveway,

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both of the mines going to the worst case scenario.

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As they watched thick black smoke below out of every

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window and vent in the house, Sonny parked. Dylan was

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already half way out of the car. Seth sprinted around

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the corner of the smoking house and started when he

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saw his neighbors in the driveway. Tie the German shepherd

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puppy followed right on his heels. Seth panted, the fire's out,

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but my parents are still in there. They all right,

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Sonny asked, I think so? That wasn't good enough for Sonny.

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He pushed past Seth and walked up to the front door.

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Before he opened it, he pulled a shirt up over

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his mouth and nose. I'll go open up the garroge

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to get more of the smoke, clear, said Seth. Dylan

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patted him on the shoulder before joining his father at

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the door. Ready, Sonny asked, Dylan nodded. They entered a

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world of suffocation and darkness. Sonny immediately bent in a

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fit of violent coughing. Dylan waited by his side until

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he was ready to continue Nelson Abby. Sonny called Horsey,

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mister Kearney, shouted Dylan in thear Abby yelled back, we're oquet,

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but we can't find Lucky. Lucky's there, Ah. Dylan suddenly collapsed.

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Sonny stooped, unable to locate him. For a moment, they

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could not understand how it was so dark inside the

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house when it was barely sunset outside. Smoke was leaving

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through the open front door. Now, so how was it

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still so thick? Sonny had seen actifires that produced less smoke.

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There was something entirely unnatural about it, and Sonny, a

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former minister and still a man of deep faith, thought

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the darkness and the smoke presented as evil. He found

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Dylan's arm and hosted him up. His own hand came

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away from his son sticky. What happened, Sonny asked, I

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don't know something that meet, Dylan answered. Just then Dilan

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and Sonny heard the pattering footsteps had confused at abbey,

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and they heard them everywhere, on all sides of the floor,

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up the walls, across the ceiling. At one point it

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sounded like an animal was trotting across the window glass.

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Son Sonny said, nervous and quiet, I think it might

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be best if we are this time. Sunny doubled over

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as something chumped down on his calf. Reacting quickly, he

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reached behind and snatched the small animal that squirmed and righted,

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and his grip's quealing awfully lock at Abbey's Hoefu vase

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came from nearby. They all heard the muffled rattle of

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the garage door, and then the door to the garage

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creaked up and yet as lucky Dilan replied, not realizing

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he was suddenly able to see the struggling piglet in

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his father's hands. The air cleared enough to allow the

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cairn is Seth included to locate Dylan, Sonny, and Lucky,

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whose snout was stained red. Both Dylan and Sonny were bleeding,

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Sonny from his calf, Dylan from his ankle, and Sonny

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looked deathly afraid. Abby rushed forward to take Lucky from him,

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but Sonny withheld the piglet and moved away from her.

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We need to step outside, he told Nelson, speaking past Abbey.

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Nelson coughed into his elbow and pointed toward the door.

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Dylan led the way, followed by his father, clutching the pig,

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who was shadowed closely by Abby trying to take it,

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but Sonny would not allow her to touch it. Down

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by the hog barn, far enough from the house that

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the smoke no longer choked them, Sunny toned solemnly toward

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the others are reached for him back. Sonny scolded it.

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Nelson put a hand on his wife's arm to gently

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restrain her. Then he Abby, Dilen, and seth All waited

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in anticipation for what Sonny was going to say. He

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seemed to be taking extra care in selecting his words.

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First of all, he finally began, I'm sorry. You've done

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nothing to deserve this. It's a cruel hand that's been

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dealt to you, Abbey interrupted, Sonny. It was just a

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grease fire in the oven. It's nothing to hear me out, please,

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Sonny said, because I've never seen any of them fire

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put out that much smoke and turn out the lights.

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And my son told me about this piglet, didn't you,

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dil What on earth did you tell him, Abby asked,

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stunned Dylan's scuff birth of his butts and the gravel

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and a bowed his head. He told me how this

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one cannibalized all its brothers and sisters, said Sonny. Hold,

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we don't know what happened to that trailer. Nelson Butt

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didn't know, but we can look at the clues, Dylan said,

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mister Kearney. Though was supposed to be thirty six pitlats

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in the trailer, somehow thirty five of them got splotted

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all over the floor, walls and ceiling, while one came

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out perfectly okay, no damage to the trailer. The driver

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didn't hear or see anything happen, So you tell me

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who the likely culprit is. I don't know. It just

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doesn't make any sense, Nelson muttered, Unfortunately it does, Sonny said.

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He licked his lips, then continued, You all know I

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used to preach, right, I spent just over twenty five years, minister. Then, see,

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when you're part of a larger religious organization, there are

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certain lines you don't cross. You do not entertain stories

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that don't come directly from the Holy Bible itself, for example,

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well at least not to the congregation, is what I

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found out. See, all the different types of preachers, the ministers,

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the pastors, the priests, they share all kinds of stories

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amongst each other. Word of mouth's stuff that's been passed

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down for generation after generation, nobody willing to commit it

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to texts. One of these stories is a bit of

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an addendum to Matthew eight for us as twenty eight

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minutes thirty three. I think when Jesus reached the other

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side of the lake, two men who were possessed by

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demons approached him, shouting, what you want with us, Son

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of God? Have you come here to tormend us? A

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large herd of pigs was feeding you by the demons

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begged Jesus, if you cast us out, send us into

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the herd of pigs, and Jesus said to them go.

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Then they left the men and entered the pigs. The

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entire herd rushed down the steep bank into the lake,

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and they perished in the water. But according to an

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unwritten account, the men tending this pig said that at

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least one of them was pregnant, and witnesses said they

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saw people scooping piglets out of the river. Miles Dance

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Room legend has it as those pigs all got killed

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in the water. The demons escaped into the little babies

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they saw him out of the mama, then swam their

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way into the arms of strangers willing to take them in.

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The story varies so much from there, I'm not confident

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enough to share it, but suffice it to say nothing

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good came of those people who took in the drowning piglets,

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good people whose worlds turned bad, just like you. You

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believe Locky is the descendant of some demon. Pick Abbey

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reproved they are said to have demon blood. Sonny replied,

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have you seen him? Leed Abbey shook her head and

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took a wery step towards Sunny and her baby pick.

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Nelson said, I haven't. Sonny nodded, deepening in solemnity. He

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reached into his pocket and produced a folder knife, which

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he promptly unfolded. Sonny No, Nelson and Seth shouted in

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near perfect units of Dad Warren Dylan. He was not

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over a second later by growling cannonball of fur and

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muscled Tie, moving faster than most of the asker, track

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leaped Sunny at Lucky. Lucky squealed and tried to escape

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from Sonny's arms. Sunny held tight and took a wide

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step back, but Ty stay locked on targ the German

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shepherd's draws calmpdown on Lucky's head. With a descending twist,

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he yanked the piglet out of Son's arms and pinned

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him to the ground. Tis body writhed like a snake's

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as he thrust Lucky in the gravel. At beat her forward,

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only to be caught by Nelson and Sunny. Seth turned

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away in disgust, and Dylan watched on in horror's blood

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shot up from ties, jaws and arcing sprays, But Dylan

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realized the fluid spray from the piglet's open, for it

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didn't really look like bluff. It was too early in black,

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and with the came a norse's stench, like rotten meat,

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as if the piglet had already been dead a long time.

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Tie opened looky up until his inner spilled out. There

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too were putrid and rotten, but worse than that, they

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were speckled with wriggling maggots. The side caused Dylan to heath.

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He stepped sideways as if to run away, but his

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knees wabbled and he collapsed. Seth only just caught his

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head before it hit the ground. Ty finally decided his

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work was done and sat back, revealing the sick and inny,

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colorful mess he had made. When his tail touched the ground,

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he nearly fell on his side. Sunny noticed this and

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looked closer at the dog. I thought so, he said,

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glancing at his own empty hands. He looked Nelson in

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the eyes and said, I wanted you to know I

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didn't mean for it to happen. Abby had glanced in

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horrified tears in between them him. Nelson looked up from

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her and said, I know, Naider, that dog's been out

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for lucky sincenow, that's not what I mean. Sonny pointed

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at Tide, and Nelson followed his finger. Ty's head had

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started to droop. He limped towards them, but seemed to

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give up halfway. Nelson couldn't see it before, but now

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that Tie was closer, he saw the hilt of Sonny's

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enough protruding from the dog's robes. Blood ran read down

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his front leg. Oh, buddy, hold on, Nelson said, trying

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to keep his voice. Daddy Abbey still didn't seem aware

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of anything. Sonny lifted her up and ushered her away. Tired,

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You'll be all right, boy, Nelson lied. He crushed by

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the dog's side to examine the injury. Base In the

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nice lent in position, Nelson could tell the wound was fatal,

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and all of Ty's trashing had only made it worse.

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That's right, boy, You'll be okay. Nelson noticed the rotten

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stench suddenly increased to the point he could taste it.

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Then he observed a change in the blood running down

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from Ty's robes. The older blood lower near his foot

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looked bright red, but the fresh blood coming down was darker,

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almost purple. Then it skipped Purple and went straight to

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black Sy. Nelson called Sonny, told Abby to go inside

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and turn back. He glanced at Dylan long enough to

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see that he had come to Seth was helping him

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sit up. On his way to Nelson, Sonny said to them,

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you boys stay back all right. When he reached Nelson

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and Tie, Sonny noted the foul blood right away. He said,

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I was afraid of this. I think that means it's

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in him now. I'm so sorry, Nelson, really I am.

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Nelson patted his shoulder, tears welling in his eyes, and asked,

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what the hell is happening, Sonny? Just a few days ago,

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I was going about my business. My wife was perfectly rational.

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My dog was tigerled. It started as a deep, bubbly

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sound in his chest, but escalated rapidly. Seth, get Dylan inside,

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hurry now, Abby too, Sunny ordered over his shoulder. He

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eyed his protruding knife, trying to decide whether to steal

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it back in case Tie became violent. Do I need

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to put him down? Nelson asked sorrowfully, No, Sonny said,

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coming to a decision about the knife, I can't say

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for sure. The killing the demon's host won't make you

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us next target. So if one of us kills him,

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we might get possessed. I just can't say for sure,

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Nelson grimaced. Ty growled again. He faltered slightly, but stood

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up tall and strong. When he recovered. Every muscle in

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his body appeared a tense at once, and his growling ceased. Nelson,

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I think we ought to move away now, Sonny warmed.

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Tie's vision snapped to him. The dog's head lowered. Hey boy,

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Nelson said, slowly, standing. Ty's eyes went to him and

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his jaws opened slightly. Don't run, Nelson advised Sonny. Sonny asked,

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you got a weapon. My gun's back in my truck.

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I thought we couldn't kill him, Nelson replied. Sonny said,

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now I'm thinking there may be a point where we

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don't have a choice. Nelson said, go get your gun.

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I'll keep ty Fogus done here. Sonny left, and Nelson

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moved in between him and the dog. Although he had

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just called the dog by its former name, he no

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longer saw Tie in its face. Ti had been personable,

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but he had never smiled up at Nelson the way

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he was doing now, and Ti had been smart, but

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his eyes had never communicated. The intelligence Nelson saw in

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them now, the very same intelligence he had seen in

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Lockey's eyes. The dog pressed forward. Nelson stood his ground. Now,

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I don't know what you are exactly, he said, but

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if you're some demon from hell, you should know I'm

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a good, god feary man. I've got the Lord on

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my side, who's on yours. The dog growled once more,

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but this time it rose and pitch until it turned

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into a snake like his. Nelson's heart rates biked. The

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intelligence in the dog's eyes now it looked like the

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purest evil Nelson had ever seen. Still hissing, the dog

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lowered its head to the ground and made to pounce.

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Nelson turned his back and ran. He did not know

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what chance he stood about running a demon dog, but

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he knew he stood a better chance of surviving than

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if he stood still. He sprinted even faster than he

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had one. Smoke was pouring out of the house. He

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could hear the dog gaining, but dared not look back.

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Sunny Hurry, he bellowed. Spending air onwards caused him to

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lose critical speed. He regained his pace, but the lapse

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allowed the dog to close the gap. He toppled Nelson

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over with a powerful leap into his back. Nelson kicked

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as he fell, connecting with the demon dove right next

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to her. Sun's knife still protruded. The dog flew backward,

603
00:27:16,480 --> 00:27:20,799
but returned immediately Nelson kicked it again. The stand flasted

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for a few rounds before Nelson felt his legs growing tired.

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Where was Sunny? The dog bat up instead of charging

606
00:27:26,759 --> 00:27:30,319
after Nelson's last kick, it appeared to smile again, lowered

607
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its head, and pawned its body to pounce. Nelson prepared

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for the end. His ears began to ring. The demon

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dog pounced, but Nelson, with his eyes clenched shut, never

610
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felt it strike. If still ringing, he had no sense

611
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of what had happened until he slowly opened his eyes

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and sorrow. His own truck stopped right by his feet.

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He looked a few feet in front of the truck.

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There in the gravel lay, furry body did still. Nelson

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now looked in the car, and Obu looked back at him.

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They locked eyes silently. They wondered, they feared, they hoped,

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they prayed. You made it out. Congratulations. If you enjoyed

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