This One's Longer

Bad Guys Need Flowers - Pt. 24
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Midnight put down the bag and picked up Sally: “Hello, little missy. Were you here all night?” That said, both females turned to glare at their counterparts.

Rog instantly jumped to his own defense: “I thought she lived here!”

Midnight: “I’m pretty sure we established the ‘collar=not feral’ system yesterday.”

Cal: “I was last to leave.”

Midnight: “So it’s your fault, too.”

Cal: “No, I mean I was the absolute last to leave. The cat…”

Midnight interrupted to correct: “Sally.”

Cal: “Sally must have already gone.”

Rog: “He’s lying!”

Cal responded: “You exited first. How would you know?”

Rog pointed. There was the terrarium Cal had used the night before to catch the final, blind scorpion. Inside was the final, blind scorpion.

Rog: “The scorpion was the last one to leave. Not you. Objection!”

Cal: “You’re out of order, and, technically, the scorpion never exited, so…”

Rog: “Sustained!”

Sally meowed again. And again.

Midnight: “Sounds to me like another empty stomach.”

Rog: “Could she eat the scorpion?”

Cal: “The poison would be a problem.”

Midnight: “Sounds to me like unwitty sarcasm.”

Cal sighed: “More like unwitting sarcasm.” Midnight yay-ed. Cal continued. “Also, I didn’t save the scorpion so that it would get eaten. It’s probably hungry itself, although I don’t know what to feed it. Do scorpions eat plants?”

Rog: “Nope. They eat insects.”

Cal: “Says the boy who didn’t know they were poisonous.”

Rog: “I knew that scorpions were poisonous. I didn’t know that cats couldn’t eat the poison, seeing as how tolerances vary from species to species.” Rog smirked, imagining this sounded a lot smarter than it was.

Midnight: “Speaking of plants…” She revealed the mystery of the bag. It was a small vase filled with red roses. “Ta da! Now what did you guys bring to improve the décor?”

Rog replied with the only answer he would: “Myself.”

Cal started to fish around in his pockets for something that would provide at least a witty comment, if not actual decor. Instead he found a note, which provided the following:

Bad Guys Need Food. PS More on back.

(back) Steal it. Obviously.
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Not hunger.