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It was all wrong Everything was all black and twisted Her water dish had water in it, but it was rainwater that tasted like smoke There was no food in her dish at all That is when she knew Meatset food ti it had been since he had fed himself

It was then that Molly had noticed that it was still raining on her as she stood over her bowls This wasn’t right The as still coht and the endless food s for her bed but even it was cold and wet and strangely flat She couldn’t get co in the rain--and trotted around outside the house until she found the small entrance to the space under the floor where she sometimes hen she didn’t want to be bothered It was nice and dry and shielded from the wind She curled up on the dirt and drifted off, deciding that if Meatsmell came back soon she would let hiht poured into the entrance to her sleeping spot and Molly instinctively o somewhere darker But then she realized Meatsmell still was not hory and waiting for Molly to co Meatsin with the last spot where she had seen hiht his rolls of spicysun She was disappointed to see that the huht’s sleep--a lot of s over their heads, were shouting at the other people ere all wearing different clothes,the sa and Molly flinched Noises that loud didn’t happen in the normal world, only people could make sounds like that One of the different-clothed people fell over and they weren’t alive any people, then turned one last ti curious and had to double-check One of the people in the different-clothes croas not in fact people He looked just like a person, but he was so to be one It was the sa the other same-clothes people did not realize this This phenomenon was not new to Molly, but she always took note of it because it seemed to be the source of a lot of anxiety for Meatsmell and his friends

Molly hurried down the street and arrived at the tiny spicy , but the place was bursting with s heaping piles, but of people Molly sniffed the ground,a full circle of the hard, cold surface around the building She picked up the scent of Meats to hurt Meatsht to the narrow door, now standing open She sniffed her way into a little room full of items that were not food She sniffed and sniffed, in an instant learning the long and drao, then someone stepped in the juices that leaked from his body, then they tracked it into this rooo

Molly was so distracted by the drama of the tiny rooone away She turned around and went back outside, only to realize she was no longer at the little building She was now looking at a flat expanse of pave with fresh smells Blood Sweat S it all in, replaying through her nose the story of scaredother scared men

There

Meatsmell had been here The scent led off tohere lots of the sa them There was a fence that went both ways as far as Molly could see, and she sensed that Meatsmell was on the other side So she just needed to find a way in Shouldn’t be a problem Molly went and found a sunny spot, and curled up and went to sleep

It took a full week to find her way in In that time she was chased by sos, and was almost hit by cars more ti building full of terrible smells--layers upon layers of ancient sickness and slow death Now she was curled up next to Meats was back the way it was supposed to be She fell into a deep sleep, inside this huge building full of anxious and tired people, many of whom she noticed were not really people

4 Hours Until the Massacre at Ffirth Asylum

John had lost track of howwhere he was This place was full of people and echoes and creaky boards andat hi he saas one of the terrifying Darth Vader guys holding a ht It’s this bullshit still

Two spaceed forward and lifted John off his cot and took hiym and into an old shower rooether by mildew John half expected to see a dozen nakedtowels at each other Instead he found hih with boxes of rubber gloves and syringes and trash bags and every other thing He was alone for ten minutes, until he was joined by--

"Detective Falconer! Shouldn’t you be wearing a space suit?"

Falconer earing his street clothes--jeans, a black turtleneck and an empty shoulder holster under his armpit Cowboy boots Little bit of beard stubble John wondered if the guy would walk fro up covered in bitches

Falconer said, "A suit wouldn’t help, would it?"

"Might buy you a few seconds Where’s Airlfriend? Redhead Only one hand? They snatched her up Both of us But I think she got away, they don’t seem to knohere she is I don’t know if she’s in town, or…"

"Didn’t see her"

"What about Dave?"

"I can ask but they won’t tell me either way"

"Because you don’t work for the CDC"

"Does this shit look like the CDC to you? You see what those guys earing? What they were packing? No, they’re not CDC and I’ processed for infected, just like you I turned ot theht have inforet tossed over the fence down at the hospital And it sounds like nobody comes back out of there"

"You turned yourself in? Great plan you had there, detective"