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“Oh, these meddling Whos,” the Grinch grumbled as he peeked through his binoculars, seeing a group of four teens climbing up the mountain, laughing along with one another.
He completed the intruder protocol and returned to his daily routine... Though he found something better to do. He rushed to Whoville, all dressed in disguise. He went around to terrorize the town, but the teens he had seen moments prior had returned, shouting about the Grinch.
“Did I hear that properly? Was someone speaking of the... Grinch...?” a voice emerged from the many overlapping mumbles, saying the name like it was some sort of vile disease.
The Grinch whipped his head around and felt his heart sink.
"I know that voice...' he thought. 'A...Augustus...'
The mayor appeared in the doorway behind him, and he began to feel something in his chest.
'I must not’ve eaten well enough today,' he thought, trying to get the inevitable idea out of his head. 'Nothing... Nothing is wrong...' He jumped up, dusting his cloak off, and shaking the feeling of what his mind told him to think.