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Looking back at the Alpha’s old house, I wonder if there might be something helpful inside.
I run toward the house, feeling as if I’m moving in slow motion.
Once I’m breaking in via the glass-free poorly boarded up window, I have protection against the weather and I’m able to move around quickly.
“If I were a weapon, where would I be hiding?” I ask as I look around.
There’s a sharp metal stick by the side of the fire.
I pick it up, and I decide it’ll do.
When I step back out into the rain, I brace myself for the walk back, and then I find myself frozen in place as I watch Scratch and Scar soar through the air and land in a heap on the hard stone of the town square, crashing into a wall together and taking a few seconds to untangle themselves and get up.
I wave from the house’s porch, and they come rushing over.
“I found a weapon,” I tell them, shaking the metal stick at them.
Scar’s eyes light up as if I just told him I found an easy way to kill the chimera.
“Is this thingthatgood?” I ask, taking another look at it.
“No,” Scar says, shaking his head, “But I might be able to find something that is.”
He runs into the house, leaving Scratch and I standing on the porch.
“It’s a nice stick,” Scratch tells me. “Did they have any more?”
I shake my head. “Just this one. Feels pretty solid.”
“It doesn’t really look sharp enough for a decapitation, though.”
“Uh … I guess it’s probably not.”
Damn.That is what we’re going to have to do here.
Cut off the chimera’s head.
We can’t light a fire that’ll burn while it’s raining so hard that the whole town might be at risk of flooding soon, and we can’t poison them without poison.
That leaves decapitation.
Great.
Scar comes back out of the house with a weird looking object.
“What is that?” I ask, not sure what it could be.
There’s a cylinder and a handle, but it is small, and it doesn’t look like anything I’ve ever seen before.
“It’s the same thing those guys we killed used on Lita. There’s a sedative in the barrel. When I pull the trigger, it’ll shoot out.”
“A seda … Oh,” Scratch says. “You’re going to use this on the chimera. That way we can kill them while they’re drugged.”
“That is clever,” I tell them. “I like it.”
“Where’s Snake?” Scar asks, looking around.
“If I had to guess, he’s still holding onto that rope,” Scratch says.
