When the rodent dies, cocci is released back into the soil and morphs back into its environmental form where it waits to be kicked up and inhaled by some other host.
You are back in your friend's living room shaking your bum and kicking up your white vinyl boots in your shortest, tightest shirt and fringiest fringe.
He licked his finger and held it up, tested the wind, then ran in its direction-on those rare occasions we flew kites in the summer, he'd kick up dust to see which way the wind blew it.