“You...” he smirked at Maggie. “ ... are BBT...”Maggie continued to glare at him the finger on her gun’s trigger tightened a bit.“And you�...��re BBD,” he said looking at Voodoo. “That stands for Big Black ... D...” He paused and smirked. “Detective,” he finished. Then he glanced past the gun pointing at him and spoke to Maggie. “Yours stands for Big Booty Tits cuz that’s all I think about when I see you, Babe.”He busted out laughing and turned towards the dead girl’s body next to him. “Wasn’t that. I was dead; this was honestly more than I expected. Thankfully they kind of turned off my need for stimulation before they put me in here. Whoever “they” are; they’ve just called themselves “The Company.” You could practically hear the capital letters.I was purchased after my death, apparently. Wholesale. The god of my world had a chosen people and I wasn’t one of them. I don’t resent him for it. He didn’t throw me into some kind of hell. Apparently The Company was some kind of interdimensional. My actions were successful, so we were able to capture the men trying to escape and ensure there were no injuries suffered on our side.Sarah sat reading my report over and over. She said, “Chuck, that crazy boss of ours, had you confronting those people without a drawn weapon and just rattling chains. All the people you’ve brought in have been a wealth of information about other wanted men in the area so far. You know, you’ve done well and proven yourself to the other Deputies. They’ll follow. And, miraculously, once the pain became all that there was in the universe, once I had embraced it as the natural order of existence, it just faded away."Good start, lean into it," he said to me.I looked around. I was laying on my back in Loris's front patch of dirt. I was soiled from rolling around in the dirt, and I'd wet myself. Marco stood over me, barking and snapping, trying to find something to kill.From the looks of it, only moments had passed. I got cleaned up, and Loris made scrambled.
Read More