"alright, forty-two," she began, "i've been over your paperwork. this isn't exactly an open and shut case, but we do have your sworn confessions.
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# Chapter 8: Inbreeding
_June 10'th 1988
07:15 Hours
The Kennel, London, England_
Taking a step back from the door, I readied myself for when the Dog would step in.
He simply stood there.
At long last the door tentatively opened.
...
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"i'm sorry, uh, forty-two. you're just doing what you were brought into this world for." he turned from me, gazing off into the empty horizon, "do you know what it's like to lose a son?"
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In many ways he is even more the perfect dog than forty-two.
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"forty-two?" his voice wasn't even a whisper.
i didn't say a word. i kept my eyes perfectly forward, staring into the middle distance.
"forty-two. answer me."
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You're more, forty-two. you were made more. i'm what you were supposed to be. i'm just another dog. i could have... i could have been great." a smile slipped through his pain.
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"it's been a long, long time since i've ever heard anyone refer to the commonwealth as an empire, forty-two." he paused, watching me. "but you've always been... you." he let out a long-suffering sigh.
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Chapter forty two - in which revaramek acts heroic.
revaramek the resplendent began as my first ever nanowrimo novel. it's a comic fantasy about a stubborn heroine recruiting the world's most egotistical dragon to save her village.
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"not going to happen, forty-two," he said, falling back to my old name. "you two dogs are the geniuses here, remember. i'm just the trainer. we're in the real world now.
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"forty-two?" his voice was a touch higher than i would have expected.
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"good job, forty-two," he said, voice soft but strong. "you gave vincent a proper thwacking, and it seems you've managed to inherit his empire."
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