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"Detective, all that stuff I just said, we didn’t just fill this in with our iination We’ve had encounters here and there, stuff has leaked out from inside the operation We look like a couple of assholes but Dave has actually worked really hard to put this together And you’ve seen enough weird shit in your tiive us just a little bit of the benefit of the doubt"

"These people, you think they’re part of the governate souys can et closed Also, they’ve been around a while Stories about this town go back as far as the history books go Maybe forever"

"What’s so special about this town?"

"Don’t know Maybe there’s sonetic conditions that ot a good deal on the land Who knows"

"And what’s so special about you and David? Why can you use the doors? Why can you see the er answer, he and I took a er still answer is that a drug hit the streets, looks kind of like ed in a decade The dealer was calling it Soy Sauce You take it and you change instantly The veil comes up off your perceptions When you’re on it, the first few hours, you’re like a fuckin’ deh time, space, unlock the mysteries of the universe and shit Then you coain But some of the effects are per, it caht? All the weird shit comes from them?"

"Yeah"

"You have any of it left? The drug?"

"You don’t want to take it It kills ninety-nine percent of the people who coruesome ways The dealer who sold it to me, they found him splattered on the walls of his trailer But in answer to your question, yes, we do have some of the Soy Sauce left"

"Where?"

"I’ll take you to it No bullshit But we got to get outta here first"

"I agree"

"And I’ree to release us, even if you wave your badge at the dude guarding the door"

Falconer said, "You’re right, for once But I don’t know if you realized it, but these assholes picked the singlein a hundred enerators in the parking lot and power cables draped through s and boxes stacked everywhere I’ they have not had time to work out exactly what they would do in the event of so unexpected Like a fire"

"We’re totally on the sae here Let’s burn this shit down"

Falconer closed his eyes, let out a steadying breath and said, "No, we just need soh the process of carefullyaaalll of these patients and staff and shit out of the building All those guys in their bulky-ass space suits tripping over cables, patients tryin’ to escape And in the confusion, we slip away Now, if I go out there now and occupy as many staff as I can with some ruse, do you possess the resourcefulness to sneak away and create a nice, smoky but controlled fire in a trash can so it up?"

John looked hiloves in there, it’ll smell just like an electrical fire"

3 Hours, 45 Minutes Until the Massacre at Ffirth Asylu to ask if anybody had seen her around before Hell, maybe she’d been here froot --as soon as we stepped into the hall a dozen people gathered around and said, "How’d you get a dog in here?"

Molly wasn’t talking She just panted and wagged her tail and let everyone pet her She was filthy,under the fence unnoticed? Both fences?

It only took ten minutes for word to filter down to the yard, and for Owen to call abecause apparently he could do that in his role as Only Guy With a Gun, according to Robert’s Rules of Order Shortly thereafter, at least a hundred people were huddled in the yard around the fire pit The night air was cold as shit, so we all huddled around the s our hands together and hoping nobody was secretly taking our picture Kind of hard to run for office later with a photo circulating of you war skulls

Owen had the auto with it In this setting it seeavel He said, "I don’t like it It don’t ettin’ past the sensors and shit out there Dog probably weighs a hundred pounds, if it can h"

I said, "Well, awesoht? Maybe there’s a place you can dig under the fence after all, out of sight of the--"

"Dipshit," interjected Owen, "we have been around and around that fence It’s all we got to do, all day, bro No, there ain’t no good place to cross the fence There ain’t any stor sewer pipes like in the daed "Well I personally observed this dog, in town, eating a burrito, after the hospital was locked down She was on the other side of that fence and she didn’t co of which," Owen said, "What are we supposed to do with it?"

I said, "Why do we have to do anything? To be clear, there’s no indication that dogs can get infected, right? So we’re not worried about that end of it?"