Not for us, I thought, as Sirius pulled back.
Heh.
Don’t worry, Taylor, I’m sure Rachel knows what she’s doing.
Bitch pulled him closer to her, shifting her grip to the chain at his neck and chest to feed the slack through it and give Sirius more room to grow. His ears were pulled back, his face etched in fear and rage, teeth bared. I would have been terrified he would snap at me, given how easily he could take half of someone’s face off with a single bite, but Bitch never flinched or broke eye contact with him.
Rachel knows how to act towards Sirius here. Eye contact, no signs of weakness, etc.
Something moved to my right, and I saw Brutus pacing. The other dogs, the ones I didn’t know, stayed back a fair distance, kept at bay by Brutus’s watchful presence.
A reminder to Taylor and the reader that the usual trio of dogs is here too. And apparently Brutus is doing his best to keep the other dogs safe.
There was a sound of shuffling chain as Bitch adjusted the chain again.
“Judas, Angelica!” she called out, releasing Sirius and backing away. “Hold!”
Good plan. 🙂
Sirius, pupils narrowed to dots, lunged at her. Judas stepped between them, while Angelica struck at the lab from the side, knocking him to the ground. In a moment, the two dogs were on top of him, Judas holding Sirius’s throat in his jaws, while Angelica lay astride his hindquarters.
“Bad boy. Stay down.”
Even with two full size dogs piled on him, Sirius managed to put up a struggle.
“The heartworm?” Bitch glanced at me.
I felt out with my power. Whatever was going on inside Sirius’ body, the worms were being churned up, disintegrating and dissolving.
Oh, I see. We don’t even need to get the worms out via the lungs, the power takes care of that too.
“Almost gone.”
She nodded.
She turned her attention to Sirius, who was lying prone, his chest heaving. “Heartworms have a bacteria inside them. When they die, the bacteria gets released into the dog.
Oh yeah, I read something about that in the Wikipedia article. Apparently this can cause inflammations?
Having a vet treat it is a long process that involves injecting arsenic into muscles and lots of antibiotics. Like this, his body won’t just kill them, but it can kill the disease. He’ll be fine by tomorrow.”
Niice.
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