>“Goat?... Like, an actual goat, or a thing that looked sorta like a goat?”
Abby hefts her shovel again at the new presence but this new person is really tall so this must be Sammy so he's going to help them find Lacey so she doesn't need to hit him. Then she remembers he asked her a question and she nods quickly, lowering the shovel a little more because this is a good question not a silly one. “Like a real goat from pictures except it had more legs and its eyes were red and it was really mad and goats in pictures usually just look hungry not mad.”
The first guy looks upset now and she cocks her head a little watching him, considering, because he doesn't know Lacey so he probably isn't upset about her. Maybe he just really doesn't like monsters. That would be good.
>>“Whoops. Uh. Sorry Sam. You want to take this from here?...You think you could tell Sam here everything you know about this goat so he can figure out what sort of monster it is?”
She opens her mouth to start even though she hates telling this story, it's a bad story, and they already know it's a goat monster but maybe there are different kinds of goat-monster which is scary because she thought there was only one but apparently these people have hunted other monsters so there must be more. Then he's cut her off with--
>>“I'm Dean, by the way. What's your name?”
Abby shifts the plastic bag into the hand with the shovel and takes Dean up on the handshake, looking solemn and gripping as hard as she can. “You're Lea's friend. She watches me and Lacey when mom and dad go to the movies. She smells like apples and she told me the bar wasn't scary because her friend lived there but I still shouldn't go in but this was an emergency so I did. I'm Abby.”
Then she hears something thudding up the stairs and whirls around in case it's the goat monster again but it's just her aunt looking all splotchy red in the face and mad. "Abigail Foster what on earth do you think you're doing? Your mother has enough to worry about without you running off into bars. Are you trying to kill her?" Abby looks horrified at that, yells, "I'm not killing her!" but her aunt, now that she's been reassured as to Abby's safety, has moved on to apologizing to Dean and Sam. "I'm so sorry she bothered you. I'm Laura Palmroy and this is my niece, Abby, her sister's been missing and she's taking it hard, she always did have an active imagination." Abby looks on the point of objecting again and mad in any case about her aunt explaining what she just said like she didn't even say it but her aunt puts a hand on her shoulder and goes on, "Abby you know goats don't hurt anyone, and none of the other families saw a goat around did they? No." Abby clutches the shovel tighter, looks away from her aunt and over at Dean, "Well I saw it,” she mutters.