The Shadows Know - Nevermore Noir, Part 5

            Kenny hit the ground hard with the Akita on top of him. The Akita picked him up by his coat collar and shook him. He shook him violently three or four times. His head rolled around like a bobble doll on a dashboard. It ended on the ground at an impossible angle where the no longer rigidly attached head looked backwards.

The Akita, satisfied with the kill, wiped his feet in the dirt and then hacked like he had a bad taste in his mouth. 
I went over and felt for a pulse. Kenny had checked out using the Express Lane. The Akita looked up at me with eyes that said, “let’s go.” I left the gun but picked up the hat. Nice hat. Right size, more or less. I put it on and pulled the leash from my pocket and slipped it over the canine's massive head. We started for home.

 “You know,“ I said to no one in particular, but since the Akita was there he probably assumed it was directed to him. “Kenny did not believe me, but crime really does not pay. He thought I was referring to money. But that is not it. As Theodore Parker once wrote, 'The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.' It might be from the police, or the courts, or jealous spouses, or vengeful mobs, or threatened rivals, or angry voters, or wronged victims, or victim’s loved ones, or even Akitas.”
 
The Akita recognized that last word and looked up with what I interpreted as a long-suffering glance and then chuffed.
“Kenny did not know that, and Mr. King does not know that. But the Shadows know.”
   

Taken on: November 30, 2018

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