Ree snored in her cot, and Loaf listened to the snoring till it got heavy and guttered, and that’s when he started to search around for what he could take with him. He was working at it, taking care to be quiet, when a coyote howled from somewhere near, somewhere dangerously close, and for a second he forgot he was inside a house, and he forgot coyotes don’t hurt people on account of they’re too small.