“Frank hesitated. “Hey. Now that you’ve swallowed a good bit of that, I do feel obligated to point out that I was inside it.” I raised the glass up to eye level, swirled it around, and took another mouthful. I was still thinking about the ghost dog from earlier. “What?” “I mean, I was shaft-deep in that drink like thirty seconds ago. You put me there, remember?” I spat my mouthful onto the floor. “Now that’s just uncalled for. If anything, I deepened those flavors.”
