The look Bunny gave Sam was sort of incredulous, not as if he were quite disgusted, but as if Sam had suggested solving a land ownership dispute by blowing up the land.

"Do me a solid and run it by me before you do that here," he said. "I get you're working with the best of what you've got back where you're from, and it sounds like a terrible place, but it doesn't have me."

He laid the last of the puppet-bodies in the forming circle and waved Sam after him.

"Next room. This is not going to be a short day."