That evening, in the hospital's morgue, Theo finds himself naked on a metal table and much less dead than most people had been led to believe earlier.
In fact, he's feeling quite alive.
"I know you were, but I'm just saying, it sounds like a pretty surmountable obstacle given that you haven't eaten me and you did listen to me when I pointed out food is people."
"And it's about time for me to eat—are you hungry at all? Should we see if we can find some deer or something?"
"I– not really?" he says. Though, you know, he probably is at least a little hungry. "Maybe a deer, I dunno."
"Should you carry me while you go hunt for some so I can remind you food is people?"
"Yeah," he nods. Then presumably out into the backyard they go and Theo picks Sadde up again and they go?
And then shortly they are at the edge of town and Theo is looking for a deer.
It probably won't take him very long.
So Theo stops and puts Sadde down and says, "They're just over there and they seem just about as edible as the squirrel. Three of them."
"So should you maybe bring me with you while you hunt? Or, can you hunt while holding a phone?"
(Ow the sun hurts.)
(Yes it fricking does.)
"Having never tried I don't know but I don't see why I couldn't?"
"Okay so you could keep talking me through what you're doing over the phone and I could remind you about people?"
"Then we establish a protocol that you don't bite for longer than five seconds at a stretch or something without checking in?"