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Falconer asked, "The Soy Sauce, was it in the house when it burned?"

"No I’ll show you"

John was afraid Falconer would say, "Great, I’ll wait here!" but instead Falconer led the way, striding into Dave’s yard like a lanced this way and that, alert but not scared John followed and made his way around the yard to find the toolshed hadn’t burned It was also still unlocked fro went to shit He reached inside and grabbed a shovel He tossed it to Falconer

"The sauce is in a little silver container, about the size of a spool of thread Inside is a really thick, black liquid When we find it, don’t open it Not only will the shit kill you if it gets on your skin, but it will come after you Have you seen The Blob? It’s like that Only tiny"

"And when you say it will kill ‘you,’ you mean ‘me’ Because you can handle it for so from the shovel, I assume you buried it?"

"Yeah, around here soing, you’ll see why It’s not deep Now, the container is so to tell you I want you to walk to a rando down about a foot"

Falconer didn’t ed the shovel into the dirt right in front of his feet Three scoops and then--

"Look Right there"

Falconer looked down, and in theout froht, how did you do that?"

"I didn’t It did The Sauce When we buried it, Dave just threw the shovel like a javelin and said wherever it landed, that’s where we’d bury it That’s where it landed Where you’re standing Because the Soy Sauce wanted it to land there Because it knew you would be standing there a year later"

"‘It’ knew So the Sauce is alive"

"Yes, sir"

"And now you’re going to s some of it"

"That’s the least painful way, yeah"

"And you have no idea how it does what it does"

"Let’s just say it’s ic"

"Let’s just say that I need a littlewith this"

John sighed "Okay, have you heard of nanotechnology?"

"Yeah Microscopic robots, right?"

"Right, and iine they can make millions of these robots and embed them in a liquid, so that you now have a liquid infused with the power of all these ine if, instead of tiny robots, it’s ers