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Cecily turned toward the ominous snuffling noise. There, in the underbrush, lurked a boar.
She’d never seen a boar, but she knew this must be one— else it was the largest, hairiest, most foul-smelling and predatory pig she’d ever encountered.
“Denny?” she called. Then, louder: “Portia? Mr. Brooke?”
The malodorous thing shuffled closer. It was drooling. Slobbering and snorting.
The beast’s rubbery lips quivered and curled, revealing a pair of sharp, menacing tusks to complement the smaller, hooked set bracketing his snout.
“Go away,” she told it. “Shoo.”
No response.
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