“It smells like Burt’s cabbage aftermath in here,” Nick observed as they returned to the kitchen, leaving Riley’s parents outside to argue. The emotionally scarred Burt belly-crawled under the table and whimpered until Janet deigned to join him and pick the feathers of his enemies from his fur. “I see you met KFC,” Wander observed. The girls were all drawing at the table now. River had added several pairs of stick figure legs to Nick’s drawing. “Nick was ruthlessly attacked and barely survived,” Gabe said. “I, however, did not receive injury.” “He threw a chicken at me,” Nick complained. Riley
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