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"Why would you want to?" demanded Becks "They’re horrible"
"They’re infected," said Dr Abbey We all turned to stare at her She continued blithely, "The biggest feh that she started displaying stalking behavior and infected three other spiders before she could be contained One of the line Co, obviously trusting us to follow her
"Spiders can’t a yourself that," said Dr Abbey, and kept walking
The rest of us hurried to catch up, with Joe once again lingering long enough to bring up the rear I foundould happen if one of us tried to split the party, the way they always seeie and Dave liked so much Given the size of Joe’s head, and the number of teeth it contained, I wasn’t in any real hurry to find out Let Becks take the suicidal risks She was the group’s re Irwin, after all
Dr Abbey waited for us at the head of a narrow alley that s to think I needed to send search parties," she said, and ducked between the racked-up tanks, starting into the darkness
"I don’t like this," said Alaric
"Too late now," I replied, and followed her
The source of the s up the sides of the alley were filled with salt water and contained a variety of brightly colored corals and plastic structures I paused to peer closer and recoiled as a thick, fleshy tentacle slapped the glass from the inside Dr Abbey snickered
"Careful," she said "They get bored sometimes They like to mess around with people’s heads when they’re bored"
"They who?" I asked, pressing a hand againstquite so hard againstme that I needed to find a bathroo surprises "What the fk is that thing?"
"Pacific octopus" Dr Abbey tapped the offending tank The tentacle responded by slapping the glass again, before it was joined by two e octopus slithered out from a crack between two pieces of coral "We do a lot of ith cephalopods They’re good subjects, as long as you can keep theh to slither out of their tanks and go around wreaking havoc"
I glanced to Becks "Isn’t this the part where you should run screaot no probles and spiders that I don’t like Octopuses are cute, in their own ‘nature did a lot of drugs’ sort of way"