Page 56 - Dark Matter Issue5 Part II

It looks like a big old porcupine.

Sister: This sure is a mess. I should skin it here.

All the cats will be coming into the yard.

Porcupine: They used to read my bones, study my

entrails for health and weather.

Amos: What happened? Did you break down?

Don’t tell me, you’re scavenging road kill?

Sister: Yeh, both! All of a sudden this thing

stalled, then I saw this huge porcupine.

Porcupine: They say our voice sounds like a

whimpering child. People gather.

Amos: Pull your hood latch. Your cable was loose.

Take it home and skin it. We’ll follow you.

Sister: I’ll make Myrna a quilled bracelet and

brother some armbands. Surprise them.

Porcupine: She’ll remember later that last night she