– 2 –

It occurs to her after a while that the goat she has eaten is extremely sharp. It is a . . . very . . . sharp goat.

“It is possible,” she says, “That my ambition to kill and eat this goat, and thus demonstrate my supremacy, has been wrong-headed, all this while.”

It isn’t because she lost at rock-paper-scissors. That isn’t the reason.

It’s the way her stomach bursts inside her, and leaves everything all-over blood.