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Joel closed his eyes. There was a small snicking noise as Jimmy’s sword cut through Joel's neck.
Joel woke up coughing and sputtering on the spit of land with the box full of his stuff, his stone safely around his neck.
My neck! Joel frantically undid the top few buttons of his jacket and felt around his throat, nothing.
Jimmy came around the corner as Joel was getting his armour back on.
“What the heck Jimmy!? You cut off my head!”
“Congrats, you are now an official ally of the Cod Empire!” Jimmy was holding Joel’s severed head gently from behind.
“You couldn't have warned me?”
“Yeah I forgot sorry. Oh! But, this is for you!” Jimmy pulled out a cod’s head from his bag.
“Jim, you know I have like eight of these.”
“Yeah but this one is different.” Jimmy pointed to an engraving running down the fish’s fin.
“The Cod Father Alliance,” Joel read aloud. It was getting dark so Jimmy hopped into an impossibly small puddle, disappearing completely, and Joel headed home.
Why did Jimmy do that to me? Why did he want my head? As he looked back Joel saw Jimmy’s distinctive figure outlined in the window, holding Joel’s head in one hand, and pulling out a second head from his bag with the other.
What are you up to Cod Father? Joel worried, And what have I gotten myself into?