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D had expected better of him. Howell had been a scientist, first and foremost, and given time he might even have become a competent one. D had given the detective to his garden because there had been no better place for a beast; Vesca, he had honestly expected to do better in his attempt to stop him.

Still, he wasn't surprised when Vesca pointed a gun at him, nor when the detective pulled the trigger. Humans went for the easiest solution, the sword to the Gordian knot.

D had expected better of him. He'd expected Vesca to finish it himself.