Freddie was watching with rapt attention as the corpse tried to strangle MacFusty, and let out a rather unmanly little noise that sounded something like eep! when he saw the damage to the man's neck.

If the victim himself wasn't going to fuss over it, though, Frederick certainly wasn't going to bring it up — or acknowledge the noise he himself had just made — and so he soberly turned his attention in the direction of the village, a shade or two paler than he had been at the start of this adventure.