The mechanic pushed his greasy ball cap further back on his head and scratched at his hair with oil-smeared fingers. A smudge of glistening black spread from his eyebrow to his hairline.
“Yup,” he said. “That’s a ghost-shark bite alright. See the ectoplasm burns around the edges?” He traced the charred and jagged line of the roughly circular hole in Marshall’s driver side door as he spoke.
Marshal’s lips thinned, his expression remarkably similar to the one his mother wore when a Things Incorporated experiment took up residence in her linen closet.
“Really,” he said, his voice carefully devoid of inflection. “Ghost-sharks, you say. The same ghost-sharks that can only be found in the drained reservoir north of town.” He turned to Dash. “The reservoir I explicitly said not to drive my car in, specifically due to the presence of spectral fish with too many teeth.”
“Maybe I was trying to save a kindergarten class that was picnicking in the bottom of the basin,” said Dash. “Maybe you shouldn’t always assume the worst of me.”
“Maybe I would believe that,” said Marshall. “Except that my car was fine yesterday morning, and last night there was leprechaun drag racing out there.”
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