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Did you really take those pills?
Melanie
You are like the last person I want to hear from right now
Melanie
What happened to waiting 3 weeks
Anders
sorry I was so cryptic
Anders
I’m just never sure who might be reading these things
Anders
But I’ve got a stash of burners now
Anders
Burner phones. I can trash them once I’m done. Break the sim card.
Melanie
So you’re like a drug dealer
Anders
Look, I’m guessing you didn’t take the pills, because if you did you’d be dead
Melanie
I’m not telling you until you tell me wtf is going on
Anders
but I can show you
Anders
Are you on campus?
Melanie
Of course I’m on campus.
Melanie
Ohhh you don’t know
Melanie
We’re quarantined
Melanie
People have been dying
Melanie
10, 11? And everyone’s sick. It’s like a war zone here
Anders
I’m so sorry, Mel.
Melanie
Don’t apologize. It’s not like it’s your fault
Melanie
So what are you going to show me?
Anders
Go to the science building. Text me when you’re there.
Anders
That’s fine. You have a flashlight on your phone, right?
Anders
Walk around to the east side of the building. Keep your flashlight on.
Anders
You’re looking for a moss-covered rock, about the size of a housecat.
Anders
It has an x spray painted on it
Melanie
Had to hide from a FEMA van
Anders
Lift the rock. Move it a foot or so to the side.
Anders
It’s not as heavy as it looks.
Melanie
Not as light as it looks either. But ok, I moved it.
Anders
Do you see the handle?
Anders
Great. Lift it up.
Melanie
What am I opening???
Melanie
You throw that word around
Melanie
as if it were so easy
Anders
Walk down, and close the door behind you.
Melanie
Not creepy at all.
Melanie
I’m in a tunnel. There’s a strand of Christmas lights?
Melanie
There’s another ladder. And it looks like another trap door at the top.
Melanie
114 is painted on it.
Anders
Perfect. Climb up the ladder and open the door.
Melanie
I’m in…a classroom.
Melanie
There are all these terrariums.
Melanie
With lizards and snakes. Gross.
Anders
Dr. Hyland’s specimens.
Melanie
Ick. Is this what you wanted to show me?
Anders
Find the green anole.
Anders
It’s a small bright green lizard.
Anders
The terrarium should be in the back left corner.
Melanie
With a plastic t-rex inside?
Anders
Bio majors have lame senses of humor
Melanie
Bio majors have senses of humor?
Anders
Very funny. I want you to look at the lizard. Tell me what you see
Melanie
It’s laying on a piece of driftwood
Anders
I want you to say hi to it
Anders
In its native language
Melanie
??????????????????
Anders
Don’t think about it
Melanie
ok and maybe I’m losing it
Melanie
But I think it said hi back
Anders
You’re not losing it
Anders
This is going to sound crazy
Melanie
Dude I just talked to a lizard
Melanie
You could tell me anything right now and I’d believe you
Anders
What if I told you that Prof. Hyland and some students had figured out a way to alter human dna
Anders
to splice it with a reptile’s
Anders
and alter the genome so that mutation progressed at an unprecedented rate
Melanie
humans are becoming lizards
Melanie
I’d say show me the evidence
Anders
WE are the evidence
Melanie
How did you alter MY dna?
Anders
A sexually transmitted one.
Melanie
But we used protection
Melanie
You knew about this?? Before you hooked up with me???
Anders
I mean, I didn’t know it would work.
Melanie
I mean, what do I do?? Besides freak the fuck out.
Melanie
WHICH I AM DOING, BY THE WAY. YOU ARE NOT OFF THE HOOK.
Anders
Ok, well here’s part 2
Anders
Those FEMA crews? They’re FBI
Anders
They caught wind of this
Anders
And they don’t like it one bit
Anders
So they want to nip it in the bud. Stop it from leaving campus.
Melanie
So they’re distributing those pills. I get it.
Anders
YES. That’s why I was so freaked out when you said you took them.
Anders
You DIDN’T take them, did you?
Melanie
they’re on my nightstand :-/
Melanie
I should probably find a way off campus…
Anders
But I guess you could meet up with us.
Anders
Dr. Hyland and some people from the class
Anders
We’re living in the woods off campus
Melanie
I always hated camping
Melanie
but where can I find you?
Anders
Meet me just outside the East Gate tomorrow at midnight.
Anders
You’re taking this surprisingly well
Melanie
Meh. Mutants don’t have to worry about student loans, right?
Anders
I don’t know about that
Melanie
I’m kidding. God, bio majors really don’t have senses of humor
Melanie
I’ll see you tomorrow night
Anders
See you then. Trashing this burner phone.
Melanie
The trapdoor that leads to the outside is shut
Melanie
someone must have moved the rock!
Melanie
Ugh! And the lab doors lock from the outside!!
Melanie
I’m stuck in this creepy room with all the reptiles
Melanie
FUCK someone’s coming
Melanie
ANDERS WHAT DO I DO???
