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EMMY
“What the hell was that?” Sky hissed.
Dair had called last night to say his daughter wanted to stay at his sister’s place because his niece had just got a new Teen Dream doll, whatever one of those was, and his sister would take them both to school tomorrow. So did we want a hand?
I wasn’t one to say no to the offer of additional labour, plus I figured he could drive Hallie back to Edinburgh in the morning, so he’d shown up with a sleeping bag and I’d changed around the shifts. Hallie and Dair had taken the first of the two-hour watches, and now it was me and Sky who were freezing our arses off in the stable yard, waiting for…
Well, it turned out to be a howl.
A decidedly canine howl, and not too dissimilar from the ones I’d listened to on YouTube earlier. Yes, okay, I’d been
