Sniff It! by C.C. Reverie

Author:C.C. Reverie
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: dog, wizard, pepper, sniff it, ccreverie
Publisher: C.C. Reverie

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Pepper caught up with Wizzy halfway through the park, for the mouse was short-legged and pretty slow. He almost didn't want to show himself, being a bit embarrassed that he had let down the mouse and broken his word to the community.

But Wizzy must have heard him running. He turned and looked over his shoulder, then stopped, allowing the dog to catch up with him.

"Hop up, mouse," said Pepper, who now lay flat on the grass so that his friend was able to climb up on his back.

Wizzy was not resentful but rather surprised, after giving up any hopes of finding Pepper.

"You have disappointed me and the nation of mice, my friend," he said close to the dogs’ ear. "I have been looking for you all over, afraid that Tank's gang ripped you in pieces and ate you up."

"It almost did," said the dog. "I would have been dead by now, had it not been for a nice creature that saw me first and alerted me to run. Like I said, I was in danger, and she saved my life, so I felt like I had to thank her. A lot."

"You don't fool me," Wizzy said. "But that's your problem. I was looking for you because we have a mission to accomplish, one that you happily agreed upon."

"Yeah, yeah!" muttered the dog, moving along the alley. None of them spoke for a long, long time.

Once they were within eyeshot of their destination, the mouse jumped down on the ground. They arrived at the shack and rested on stacks of hay, eating dog food from a bag. Wizzy was telling Pepper what he had found out the previous night by listening in on the conversation between the mayor and his guest. "And they will start at the Hills, I think. They said that the mice will first become ill; and after a day or two of unbearable pain, they..." But Wizzy didn't finish his sentence because tears filled his little eyes.

"Oh, Wizzy!" Pepper was moved by his little friend's suffering. "We will find those bastards and, and... grrr!!!" the dog continued, becoming very aggressive. Then he stopped as if stricken by lightning. "The thing I don't understand is why do you need me if you already know that they'll spread the poison? You could just run and alert all the mice."

"Maybe so. Maybe we can avoid the contaminated spots for a while; we can even manage to find a temporary home, at least some of us. But they are serious. They plan to keep track of how many deaths their poison produces. They'll come after us wherever we will go. There's no escape."

Wizzy looked into Pepper's big dog eyes. They were wet. "And we will not be the only casualty."

"What do you mean?" asked Pepper, horrified.

"Think about all those dogs that play in the parks, along with children and other little animals..."

Puppanela, thought Pepper.

"Exactly," said Wizzy.

The dog froze. What did the mouse just say? But he didn't have time to think deeper about it, for the doors to the shack were opened wide.

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