Not her again!-the skinny woman in the black one-piece turned the corner. Slydes ducked behind the trees. If he'd been a second slower, the woman would have seen him.What the fuck is she doing in there?She seemed intent on something, a half smile on her face as she bopped up to the first door. She's spending an awful lot of time in there ...Slydes noticed that she was holding something. It looked like a piece of pink string draped over her pen."Come on, worm," she absently remarked. "Let's see what you're all about." And then she went into the building.Worm? Slydes thought. Is that what she said? So the pink string was a worm, obviously a dead one. But now that Slydes thought about it, the worm was the same color of the thing that had landed on Ruth two nights ago, and the same color of the worm they'd stepped on in Jonas's dope shack, but a lot longer. And...Ruth said something about snakes, too, didn't she? Giant snakes that were ... pink .. .Giant pink snakes? Or maybe giant pink worms ..
