They Told Me I Could Only Take One Dog Home Until I Saw What Happened When They Tried to Separate Them

with the steady watchfulness of an animal that has learned to observe before it trusts. She looked back. The eye was dark and deep and tired in a way that was not sickness exactly but something more like having seen enough of a certain kind of thing and no longer being surprised by it.

Then Clara said Beans’s name softly and something happened.

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