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In a matter of seconds, the wounds had completely disappeared.
“It’ll hurt internally for a little while longer, but this’ll keep it from getting infected,” Snowbird told me while inspecting my shoulder to ensure everything was okay.
“You didn’t answer my question." He returned only a look of annoyance, but after a stare down, gave in.
“I suppose it won’t hurt,” he said, eyeing me suspiciously. “The beast that your world calls ‘el Chupacabra’ is not of this planet. It is a transdimensional being from a solar system far from here. It escaped custody of the police organization of my planet, of which I am a part of. It crash- landed on this planet decades ago.”
“Are you telling me you’re from another planet?” I asked, baffled at the idea. “You’re a cop from another solar system, and the urban legend, el Chupacabra, is a transdimensional what now?”
“Transdimensional being,” he said again, “These creatures don’t just move through three-dimensional space like you and I, they can move through the dimension of time. While the scientists of my planet discovered methods of creating a time machine, your ‘el Chupacabra’ can do so without aid of technology. It’s biological. Evolutionary.”
“So, every sighting of him...It’s all the same thing?” I asked, trying to put the pieces together.