could, a small penlight coming to life in his left hand. 

“Just like I thought - his mouth is full of fillings. Why pull this tooth - this tooth specifically? There are others that have more gold inside them than the one the girl pulled out.”

“Maybe she yanked out the first tooth with a filling she saw. She was only checking to see if he was really dead. Any tooth pulled out of his head accomplishes that,” Berkleigh offered while staring a hole through Underbrink, who was practically jumping at every little sound in his immediate vicinity. 

“No, no. That makes sense, but that’s not it… that’s not why she yanked out this particular tooth. There are other teeth a lot closer to the front of his mouth t...

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