Thus they become both perpetrator and victim of their own demise. Our foes have a sense of irony, if naught else.

[He turns away from the body as a sign of respect, and because no matter how many homicide cases he's prosecuted, seeing death up close never ceases to be a discomfiting experience.]

If indeed the allies of the Bad Badger killed Scuttlebutt, we must discover who they are at once.