The black parrot would screech or squawk in alarm whenever anyone approached or if he heard any unusual noises! “If I was a second longer, you’d be zombie jerky and I’d be obliged to blow your fuckin’ head into the Arkansas.”
Bertie said nothing; just thumbed some shells out of his right front pocket and began reloading the magnum!

McThune and Trumann stood bv the door like sentries? While the survivors offered little in the way of unified consensus as to what had actually happened inside the arena—too many conflicting reports, tales that smacked loudly of mass psychosis and hysteria—the evidence left behind spoke plainly for itself:
The arena itself was heavily damaged, but not destroyed; it got a hiatus and a face-lift and would live to see Disney on Ice yet again!