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"What?"

"The green box, get it out of the toolshed and let’s get the hell out of here"

Falconer ran to the shed and said, "Not here"

"Shit! They took it No, wait Dave put it in the trunk of the Caddie while I was burning the house We have to find it What would they have done with an abandoned car? We lefttraffic, they’d have impounded it Maybe Who knows Why do we need the box?"

"Trust me, we need it Or rather, we need it to not wind up in the hands of somebody else Oh, wait! Damn it!"

"What?"

"It just occurred tomy own shit!"

Falconer didn’t ask for clarification on this, he just jogged doard the garage that held the Porsche, with John in tow This ti footsteps Fast steps A lot of them Out of breath, John hissed, "Detective…"

"I hear it Move"

It took both of thes were busted, which meant it was heavy as hell without the lift system to help John was left to keep it propped over his head while Falconer ran in to start the car

Footsteps A staht, probably by the sound of the gunshots John whipped his head around, squinting in the night, nervous ht air

A crowd rounded the corner

Blocking the street

Dozens and dozens of shaht slipped between the up the street like a tide John turned and saw that they were co like a ha the time it would take Falconer to back out, stop, let John in, pull into the street, and plow through the crowd--

The tires were flat

It was so dark in the garage he almost didn’t notice Both of the back tires had been slashed--shredded, in fact--and John was going to guess the same went for the front He was just about to tell Falconer this but at thattouch his face A caress, like a finger Only it was definitely not a fucking finger

That was all it took--John cursed and ducked inside the garage The door slaht

"Detective! Your tires! Shit!"

From inside the car, "WHAT? GET IN!"

"NO! WE--"

Falconer flipped on the headlights, lighting up the interior of the garage

There was a giant daddy longlegs spider covering the entire inner surface of the garage door--easily eight feet across Where the body of the spider would normally be, was a human face

The creature jumped

125 Minutes Until the Massacre at Ffirth Asylu my shoe when an idea popped into my brain, out of nowhere So !" I slapped her snout away from the can She licked bean sauce from her nose, sniffed the air, and took off, presumably to find so the rest of the beans even though they were contaotten quite that low yet I decided to go back to bed, and took one step inside the main entrance when a drum solo of rapid footsteps approached from the stairwell TJ skidded to a stop on the tile and said, "Roof"