'23kpc' Chapter 44: Pooches on the Brain

As Groucho said: it's too dark to read

[Okay, there’s something going on in there… something different from the rest of what’s there… something… something artificial, something, well, let’s just go with mysterious — especially in the impenetrable darkness at the core — however artificial it might be. Obviously this is a composite image, combining a radiograph of a non-Poochish canine skull (from the University of Illinois Veterinary Medical school) and (b) an illustration from an article (at The Conversation) on quantum mechanics. Sticklers for narrative consistency even in a first draft might observe that in an actual Pooch, this mysterious something would actually be located at the other end.]