Does he not know the rules, though? Slashers aren’t into guns. One of the papers she wrote for Mr. Holmes, even, back in the days of extra credit, was how the reason bullets never can take the slasher down is that they’re not in the gun economy at all, are far outside it, like there’s some unspoken deal in place: I won’t use you, you can’t hurt me. Dark Mill South should know this at an instinctual level. He’s got a hook hand, after all! He might as well be lurking around down at lovers’ lane, where you don’t shoot people Zodiac-style, Son of Sam–style, you eviscerate them, you hang them up
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