Abductive Reasoning

Billy's mom gets scared from seeing Grim for the first time, then deduces that Billy has become a skeletion and tells Billy's Dad who also believes her, but then doubts her when he sees Billy in Grim's place. Neither realize that Grim and Billy are actually doing things together, but draw their own abductive conclusions based on what they see.

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