Lost

"Lost" is the sixth Beasts of Burden story.

Story
The Burden Hill junior apprentices train under the Wise Dogs and listen to (mostly bogus) cases brought to them by neighborhood dogs. One dog, Hazel, tells them her pups have gone missing. The gang spreads out to search, to no avail. On a tip from a raccoon, they go to the Devil's Well, a pool in the woods. There, they perform a summoning, which brings out the ghosts of the two puppies. Jack allows them to possess him so they can speak through him, then the ghosts of many animals come out of the pool.

Hazel, Ace, and Rex are possessed and run off to a house, where they kill David, a teenage serial animal killer. Meanwhile, Jack has fainted; the others attempt to banish the ghosts, but only succeed in getting them to possess a horde of forest creatures which begin to close in on them. Hazel returns and tells the ghosts that their murderer is dead, then jumps into the pool to keep them company; the ghosts go with her.

Jack wakes up two days later. The gang drops flowers into the Devil's Well, where Hazel rests at the bottom with her pups and all the other animals' bodies.

Characters

 * Ace
 * Pugsley
 * The Orphan
 * Jack
 * Whitey
 * Rex
 * Red
 * Emrys
 * Miranda
 * goblin (first appearance)
 * Hazel (first appearance)
 * Ty & Chloe (first appearance)
 * Hoke (first appearance)
 * Hoke's mom (first appearance)
 * David Reardon (first appearance)

Mentioned

 * Holstein
 * Rex's owner
 * The Great Dog
 * The Black Dog