. . .

“Do you —” says Linus. “I mean, you, I mean, do you kill and eat people?”

It’s the wrong question. What he meant to say is are you also somebody who is going to destroy the world? He has just been filling his head with erroneous notions about Jane ever since she arrived at the house at Doom Lane.

Jane shakes her head. “I made a pancake,” she says. “It was going to destroy the world. But then it didn’t.”

“See?” says Tom.

“I don’t think it would do any harm to let her in,” says Edmund. “Who makes one pancake can make another.”

“Maybe,” says Tom. He chews on his lip. “Or, she could be a Doom Team Auxiliary!”

Mouser —

The Doom Team’s current Auxiliary, a certain tortoiseshell cat of talent —

mews.

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