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"Not that I know of Can solances Was the food a sensitive subject around here? Nobody seemed to have barbecue ribs

Four-balls said, "You playin’ a fuckin’ game here, bro?"

"Have we ree to fuck off will you tell me where the food is?"

The man scowled and said, "Ask Sal where the food is Go ahead He’s right there"

He nodded toward the bonfire A skinny guy with a bandage covering one eye said, "Let it go, man Walk away" He said it to me

"Why am I the one who has to walk away? Maybe I wanna enjoy the fire?"

Four-balls stepped toward ot five seconds to walk away or else you’re goin’ in there with Sal I don’t give a shit what anybody says"

"Wait, do you have me confused with someone else?"

"Whoa, whoa!" frouy froot outta the hole"

Four-balls said, "I don’t give a shit"

Black guy grabbed o inside, it’s cold out here"

I ith hireen suits ith him What, e on teams? What the hell was this? Had I stepped into soain?

"Man, we didn’t think you were coot the warning buzz about forty-five onna be here any time"

I said, "I didn’t understand one word of that"

Just short of the front door he stopped, leaned into my ear and screamed, "WE GOT THE WARNING BUZZ FORTY-FIVE MINUTES AGO SO THE--"

"My hearing is fine I don’t knoho you are I’ve lost ti I re to shit out there, out in the town Then I woke up in the basement of the old creepy-ass TB asylum down the street In the ‘hole,’ is that what you called it?"

The black guy rubbed his head and said, "Shit You get knocked over the head or somethin’?"

"No, they said it was a side effect of whatever they did to lanced around nervously and pulled me inside the hospital The place was absolutely trashed Once upon a tiht inside the doors where you could check in with a row of secretaries who’d log you into their co out the people who didn’t have insurance Now there were just ragged splinters and deep gouges in the tile where the desk had been roughly ripped frouy said, "Firewood See, their plan is to take the easy stuff first--stuff close to the door--and burn it That e’re all more tired and sick a month froet to on the tenth floor Makes good sense if you’re a fuckin’ idiot"

"How long? Tellsince the outbreak happened?"

"’Bout nine days You don’t remember nothin’?"

"Holy shit, we trashed the hospital this bad in nine days?"

"Oh, no, s in order for the first few Then they bailed out We done all this since Wednesday This is Sunday"

"And no, to answer your question, I don’t re up here I don’t even know your name"

"Name’s TJ I knew John before all this You and I met once at a party but you probably don’t remember that for a different reason"

"Wait, is John here? The guy said--"

"No, et up to my room, come on"

He ledthat had transpired, still s to get rich one of these days selling a hospital disinfectant that doesn’t stink of despair

We eed into a fifth-floor hallway and there wasn’t anybody there asn’t in a green juuy who looked like he’d been dozing in a wheelchair said, "Spider-Man! You escape or they let you out?"

Before I could answer, TJ said, "Let hiy frory? They feed you?"