In the split second Allie was lost in thought, Scabbers, who should have been dead, suddenly lunged forward and bit down hard on her finger.
With a sharp intake of breath from the pain, Allie instinctively flicked the rat away. Landing on the floor, Scabbers ignored the pain in his body and immediately scrambled to escape in all directions.
"Peter, I really overestimated you. If you had just played dead a little longer, I might have actually believed you were just a rat!" Black said, bursting into wild, unrestrained laughter as if driven mad by twelve years of agonizing torment.
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