Infestation Page #3

- They're blind.

Yeah, well,

maybe we should find out more.

- Looks like a mutant lobster.

- Let's melt some butter and have...

Whoa!

He's not liking this very much.

- OK, so what now?

- We milk it.

Erm, excuse me?

Like a snake. We get it to bite into

a container and I'll examine its venom.

- What are you?

- A student.

- Shiatsu massage.

- I'm gonna pretend that makes sense.

There's a drugstore nearby

with supplies I can use.

- I'll get them. You collect the venom?

- Whoa. You want us to do that?

- You'd rather go outside?

- No. We got it.

- Er...

- Hugo.

Come on.

We're... We're doing this?

- I'm spotting you.

- Put your hands on the door.

- We'll use our feet to brace it.

- The floor's slippery, so I thought...

- You know what? I think it'll work.

- OK. Crack it open.

- Oh!

- Push.

- Come on. Come on.

- Hold it.

Yeah, that's right.

I remember bits of the day before

but nothing about the morning

it must have happened.

My mind's Swiss-cheesed,

but I get flashes of things.

Driving to work, you know,

and calling Hugo for lunch.

And you standing above me.

I remember being fired.

And then... a noise,

like, erm, like a high-pitched, er...

like a dog whistle.

- It hurt.

- Yeah, right. Yeah, it hurt. Yeah.

I thought it was a fire alarm,

and then the... person in front of me

in line doubled over,

and then I just fell to the floor.

Erm, it's a sedative,

but it's a protein, too.

- How'd you figure that?

- It kept us sleeping.

And pregnancy tests,

they detect complex proteins.

I just used one of those.

- I never would have thought of that.

- Why keep us alive?

Fresh meat?

Red gas is gathering

on top of the janitor closet.

Like in the sky?

They exhale it,

but I don't know what it is.

Tomorrow, when we go to Cooper's

dad's house, we gotta stop by my place.

- Mama's sick.

- Well, I wanna see my brother.

- OK. We can work that into the plan.

- You know, about the plan.

I've been doing some thinking

about my dad's, and, er...

Forget it. Sorry. Just... I'm tired.

OK. I think it's best

that we start preparing for night.

We'll work out a watch schedule

and rotate every hour.

Ow!

Ow. It's... It's crazy.

You're not even sweating. It's...

I know it's been only one desk,

but you're a pretty strong guy, huh?

So you hear OK?

With the aids? The hearing aids, yeah?

I had ear infections as a kid.

So I'd lose my hearing, you know,

a couple of weeks at a time.

It wasn't the pain

that bothered me so much as...

It was a little lonely, that's all.

- Hey, what's the hold-up?

- Just feng shui-ing our hideout, man.

On three. One, two, three.

Hey.

We were looking for bedding in

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