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‘War paint,’ says Dee, fastening his seatbelt

‘Except it’s in our hair instead of on our faces,’ says Duinal like that’

‘Besides, are poisonous frogs worried about being spotted by birds?’ asks Dee ‘Are poisonous snakes? They all have brightnow?’ I ask

‘Ribbit’ He turns and flicks out his tongue at ue too?’

Dee smiles ‘Nah It’s just Gatorade’ He lifts up a bottle half-full of blue liquid ‘Gotcha’ He winks

‘"Hydrate or Die," man,’ says Dum as we turn onto El Ca,’ says Dee ‘It’s for some other brand’

‘Never thought I’d say this,’ says Dum, ‘but I actually miss ads You know, like "Just Do It" I never realized how ood advice came from ads What we really need now is for soive us a really excellent saying to go with it Like "Kill ’E jingle,’ I say

‘Only because it wasn’t good advice back in the day,’ says Duood advice now Attach a product to it, and we could get rich’ He turns and arches a brow at his brother, who turns and arches an identical eyebrow back

‘So does anyone have a good survival strategy, or is there no hope for getting out of this night, fat zero I don’t knoe’re going to survive the blood hunt,’ says Dee

‘That wasn’t the night to,’ says the Colonel ‘Death by stupid co about’

The twins look at each other andeach other they’ve been busted

I grin in spite of it all It’s good to know I can still set down to business

‘What’s going on with that angel plague you orking on, Doc? Any chance we could go pandemic on their asses?’ asks Dee

He shakes his head ‘It’ll take at least a year, assu about their physiology and don’t have anyone to test it on But if we’re lucky, it’ll take a few of theels were creating another beast for the apocalypse,’ says Doc ‘The instructions were very specific It had to have seven heads that were a mix of animals’

‘The sixer?’ I ask ‘Yeah, I saw it’

‘If it has seven heads, why do you call it a sixer?’ asks Sanjay

‘It has the number six-six-six tattooed on its foreheads’

Duels called it the beast,’ says Doc ‘But I like your sixers name better’

‘The seventh head was human, and it was dead,’ I say

‘Was the sixer alive?’ asks Doc ‘Did any of the angels around it look sick?’

‘Oh, it was definitely alive I didn’t notice anybody looking sick But then again, I wasn’t looking at them Why?’