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Dumb resist man, it's no use.

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My words following the new guy's deaf ears.

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He's not really deaf though, but

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he does seem kind of dumb. I

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stand inside the store's automatic doors.

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Watching as a foundation security guard

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struggles to shove new guy into the store.

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Good to hell in there, or I'll crack

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your skull. The guard, a

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guy named Boyers says, What's

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that they used to say in Star Trek? I

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say a new god. Resistance

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is futile. Finally.

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A second security guard comes over,

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and the two of them shove new guy inside,

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sending him sprawling onto the large worn

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men. You come out of there before

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your shift is done.

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I'll feed you to SCP six

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eighty two. Boyer says,

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he and

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the other security guard walk away to their

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posts. If you ask me,

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this is an inauspicious start

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to the day. New guy

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lies on the mat, unmoving.

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Until

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the automatic door closes.

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Really, man?

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this isn't such a bad gig. I

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tell them. Compared to some of the other

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shit I've done for the foundation, this

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is a cakewalk. Finally,

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New guy moves. Looking up

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at me from the floor. The automatic

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door opens behind him. Letting the

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chill morning air into the store again. I

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hate retail, he says,

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it

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is a special kind of hell I admit.

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But

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you can't let it get to you.

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It's

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better than getting torn into pieces by

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an unkillable lizard. Is

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it though? New guy says,

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standing up and dusting off his orange jumpsuit.

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He's fairly young, maybe in

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his earlier twenties. he's

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got the kind of plump body that I associate

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with babies. Not exactly

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fat, but not really thin

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either. His dark hair

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is buzzed close to the scalp just

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like mine. His wide set

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eyes are small and green. They

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dart around the store. No

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doubt, looking for some monster that will appear

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and try to kill him. Or

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maybe he wasn't kidding. Maybe

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he just hates retail that much. Come

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on, new guy. I say to him.

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I'll show you the ropes. It's easy.

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I turn to walk into the small grocery

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store hoping he'll follow me. He

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doesn't.

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Instead, he turns and runs

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out the front door, but he doesn't

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make it very far.

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He comes face to face with a huge humanoid

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beast straight out of a renaissance painting

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of hell. The muscular

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beast is covered with wiry black fur

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with cloven hoofed feet and horns

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on his head. He carries

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a rising serpent in each hand and

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his red eyes glow with pure evil.

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His face is half goat and half

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human, but he has three mouths,

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one in the middle, and one in each

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cheek. New guy changes

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direction and begins walking backward because

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the eight foot tall demon hasn't even broken

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stride. beyond

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the beast in the parking lot.

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I can see an oversized, pontiac firebird,

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steam coming off it and then chill air,

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New guy comes back into

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the

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store. Moving off to the side

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as the beast ducks and walks in.

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Hey, Frank.

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I say, raising my hand.

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The beast says out of all three

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mouths, his voice crackling

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like sizzling flesh, sending

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terrible thoughts coursing

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through my mind, but he doesn't

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stop.

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He just walks on into the store.

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Frank told me his real name once, but

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just hearing it made my nosebleed.

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So I just call him Frank. He

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can go to hell if he doesn't like it. Actually,

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that's where he's just come from. New

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guy watches Frank walk down isle

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seven, hell wears, and

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then turns his attention back the door.

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New guy, I say,

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you

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can try to run, but the security people

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have a perimeter setup. And

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if you make them work too hard, they

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will beat the shit out of you. But

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if you stay in here and do as I say,

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nothing bad will happen to you. Okay?

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My

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name's not fucking new guy. It's

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Dante. Okay? Dante

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Milton.

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You've gotta be fucking kidding me.

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I

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say,

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what? You

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got a problem with my name? Dante

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says, rushing

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over to me and getting all alpha dog in

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my face. I landed

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in jail for beating the spit out of three

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guys who were harassing my little sister.

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I may have gone too far with one of

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them, the ringleader. he

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may have died in the hospital, and

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I may have told the judge during the trial

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that I would do it again. That's

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what may have landed me in the clutches

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of the foundation as a d,

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orange

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jumpsuited guinea pig. All

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that to say that the three guys I fought,

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all at once mind you, were

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bigger and stronger and

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scarier than Dante Milton. So

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I wasn't too concerned.

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Still, I

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don't wanna make the guy's day any worse.

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So

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I put my hands up and say, no

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problem. No problem. Just

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that whoever signs you for this detail

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as a sense of humor, I guess.

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What do you mean?

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Dante says, what

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the hell are you talking about? Like

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I said earlier,

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he's a little dumb. Nothing.

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I

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tell him. Forget

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it. As Dante's

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deciding whether to throw a punchy fist

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at me,

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The automatic door opens again.

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An ephemeral humanoid being

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walks in. Looking like a collection

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of mist, it has no facial

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features. No distinguishing features

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at all, really.

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Hey, buddy. I

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say.

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Welcome to Babylon. The being

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ignores me and walks over to Isle too.

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Bread, flesh, and manna.

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What the fuck is this place? Dante

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says. Stopping one foot like

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a child.

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Just stick with me. You'll get used to it.

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I say, oh, name's

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Owen, by the way. I stick out

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my hand, but Dante just

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looks at it. Then he looks over

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my shoulder. That thing's

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back, he says. I

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turn and see Frank standing at

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register number one looking

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over at us impatiently. His

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arms are crossed and the writhing

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serpents in each hand are looking our way

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too.

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Follow me and remember, the customer

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is always right.

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I step up behind register one

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and put on my best smile. There's

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a single package on the little belt and

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I go to grab it, but the creature

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clears his throat. I stop

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and look up at him. How

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can I help you, Frank? The

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demon glowers at me for a moment before

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picking up the package. The

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plastic packaging

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says unread on the

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front in big letters. Inside,

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there are little humanoid shapes of green

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colored bread. They look

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like miniature zombies well

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into their decomposition. Do

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you rather have any of your

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things that are more rotten? Frank

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asks,

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speaking out of one mouth now, his

7:37

voice only kind of making me want to kill

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myself.

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I like to really

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ride.

7:43

Oh, gee. I say, let

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me go check-in the back. Frank

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nods and retraces his arms. I

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turned to Dante. Just stay here

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and ring anyone up on register two. Okay?

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What? Dante says,

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can't wait. I can't ring

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these things up, let me go check

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the back. You don't even

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know where the back is, I

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say. it's fine. You've

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worked to register before, right? Just

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bring stuff up and make change. It's

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easy. I'll be back in a flash.

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Dante makes concerned noises,

8:17

but I rush off before he can say

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anything else. When I come

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back less than two minutes later, I

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see Dante being choked by a huge demon

8:25

with reptilian skin and fat wings.

8:28

Abu Dhabi. Whoa. Whoa.

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I say Abby, my man. What's

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the deal? Can you put him down so

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we can talk about this? Abadon

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drops Dante who hits the ground

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with a thud and sucks in a gasping

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breath. He didn't greet me

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when I came in the door. Papa

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Dan says, his voice high and

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whiny. the complete opposite of how

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you think it should sound. Well

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Abby is new. It's his

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first day. I say

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in soothing tones. I

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haven't had a chance to train him yet,

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but

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I'm very sorry. Welcome to

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Babylon's Abby. Can I

9:02

help you find anything? Abadon

9:04

Cox won muscular hip out

9:06

and puts a hand on it. He

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glares at me with the black eyes of a shark.

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No. I

9:12

can find things myself. I'm not

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an idiot. He stocks off

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to IL three. Halloween

9:18

candy.

9:19

I'm waiting. The

9:21

voices like nails sticking directly into

9:23

my brain. I have

9:24

a sudden urge to jump off a tall building.

9:27

Frank, speaking with his three

9:29

mouths. Sorry, Frank.

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I say, going around to register

9:34

one

9:34

and holding up the package of unread

9:36

I found in the back. It's

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the ripest one I found. Frank

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smiles with all his mouths. The

9:43

serpents is happily. I ring

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the demon up and send him on his way.

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Jesus Christ, Dante

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says, getting up and rubbing his

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neck.

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Gosh, I

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say, looking

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around for fear that someone heard him.

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Don't say that in this place.

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They really don't like

9:59

that. What

10:01

was his problem? Dante

10:02

says. He

10:03

just came over and looked at me What

10:06

asked him

10:06

what he wanted, he started fucking choking

10:08

me. I glanced

10:09

around to make sure Abadon isn't with

10:12

an earshot. He's a bit of a

10:14

Karen. I

10:15

said, Just

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make sure you're super nice and you greet him when

10:18

he comes in. In fact,

10:20

it's a good idea to greet everyone.

10:22

As if

10:22

on cue, the automatic door

10:25

opens and in walks a

10:27

short, fat, green skinned

10:29

demon with three horns sticking out of his

10:31

head. Besides him walks a

10:33

hellhound, all three of its

10:35

heads sniffing the air and looking

10:37

around curiously with its three pairs

10:39

of red eyes Welcome to Babylon

10:41

Horrors Corner store. I call

10:43

out. A demon flips me the

10:45

bird without so much as looking over.

10:47

The mist figure comes up with a

10:49

package of deviled eggs, little

10:51

eggs holding pitchforks, and

10:53

producing little explosions of flame in their

10:55

container. High super buys as

10:57

Dante rings up the purchase, taking

10:59

the strange money from the ephemeral figure

11:02

and making change. See,

11:04

I ask when the figure is gone.

11:06

It's

11:06

easy. The computer tells you

11:09

exactly which coins to give back.

11:11

I look

11:11

around and then grab a bell from

11:13

under the register. placing it on

11:15

the belt, so any customer that's ready to

11:18

check out can ring it. Let

11:19

me show you the back, I

11:21

say. I

11:22

lead Dante through aisles of odd

11:24

products and toward the storeroom. As

11:26

we're walking, I catch a glimpse of

11:28

Abby looking at the rotting meats

11:30

section. Instead of

11:32

having the meats refrigerated, Babolons

11:35

has them sitting under weak heat lamps,

11:37

helping them go bad as quickly as

11:39

possible.

11:40

The stench is

11:41

unbearable as I help Abbie find the last

11:44

package of demon dogs. They

11:46

look like hot dogs, but each

11:48

one has three cylindrical heads.

11:50

and they bark when you cut them. As

11:53

I turn around and head back to Dante,

11:54

I see something behind him.

11:57

Dark. I shout but too late.

11:59

the

11:59

floating package of

11:59

demon dogs smack them in the back of the

12:02

head, continuing on its way to

12:04

stock itself

12:04

on the shelf. What the hell?

12:07

He says, You're

12:08

lucky that wasn't something from the hell

12:11

wears aisle. Pretty much everything there

12:13

has spikes. I give

12:14

Dante the rundown on the storage room,

12:17

telling him we don't have to worry about

12:19

restocking anything. The

12:20

only time we have to go back there is

12:23

when a customer wants

12:24

something specific, like

12:26

Frank, and the unbred. The

12:28

bell

12:28

at the front of the store dings had

12:30

a run to take care of it. I

12:33

ring up the green demon who buys

12:35

several items including an extra

12:37

large package of human eyeballs for his

12:39

hellhound. Hungry dog,

12:41

I say, smiling. The

12:44

demon flips me off again before

12:46

paying and leaving with his grocery

12:48

bags, which are made of human

12:50

skin. With the

12:52

transaction done, I look around

12:54

for Dante. he emerges from

12:56

the hell wears isle and walks

12:58

up. What were you doing there?

13:00

I ask. Just getting the lay

13:02

of the land, get off my back,

13:04

Jesus, ah, I

13:05

say, stopping before he

13:07

can say it again. While we

13:09

finish out the shift, try

13:11

my best to tell Dante all he needs to

13:13

know about the store. I tell

13:16

him about how the one time the foundation

13:18

decided not open the store,

13:20

the demons went to local Walmart.

13:23

That didn't go over well. Lots

13:25

of domestics had to be used after

13:27

that one. So so now. They

13:29

make sure the store is open every day.

13:32

Finally,

13:32

the shift is over. Handing

13:35

things over to the night shift doesn't take

13:37

long. With that done, we

13:39

head outside to catch our ride back to

13:41

site one eighteen. As we

13:43

approach the door, I feel like I'm forgetting

13:46

something. Something

13:48

important that I forgot to tell Dante.

13:50

That wasn't so bad,

13:51

he says, you're

13:52

right. Better than some other

13:54

shit I've had to do. We

13:56

step out into the late afternoon sun.

13:59

Suddenly, I remember what I forgot to tell

14:01

him. Oh, I

14:03

say turning to up. This is

14:05

important.

14:06

tentacles shoot out from around the front door, grabbing

14:09

Dante by the arms and legs.

14:11

He screams as they pull and

14:13

pull. I step back,

14:15

winting at the sound of his flesh splitting.

14:17

Then all at once, his

14:19

limbs are torn away in a splash of

14:21

blood. His torso, head still

14:23

attached, flops down in the ground just

14:25

in front of the door. The

14:27

tentacles suck back into the recesses to

14:30

taking his arms and legs with them. Dante

14:33

screams, looking down at his gaping

14:35

wounds. A black hole opens up in

14:37

the ground just behind his head.

14:39

he's still screaming when the gruesome, gnarled

14:41

hands reach out of that infinite blackness

14:43

and pull him down by the head. The

14:46

screaming fades. But the

14:48

hole stays open. And

14:50

after a moment, a

14:52

small torture tool floats out of the

14:55

hole.

14:55

It's sharp and spiky.

14:57

And as

14:57

a wooden handle with a tag

14:59

still attached,

15:00

it moves through the open door.

15:03

heading back to restock itself in the

15:05

Hellwares isle. Don't ever steal

15:07

anything from the store,

15:08

I say, finishing my

15:10

thought.

15:11

Whether he stole it to get revenge on

15:13

the guards who man handled him this morning,

15:16

or he thought he could somehow use it to

15:18

escape. Doesn't matter. It

15:20

was a stupid move on his part.

15:22

And yes, I should have told

15:24

him what would happen if he ever stole

15:26

something. Oops. Still,

15:29

it goes to show what I've been saying for

15:31

years. It's impossible

15:33

to find good help these days.

15:37

SCP twenty eight fifty four is an

15:39

abandoned supermarket located about two

15:41

miles from site one SCP

15:45

twenty eight fifty four dash one

15:47

is the designation for entities that

15:49

frequent SCP twenty eight

15:51

fifty four. During

15:53

normal business hours, the store's

15:55

anomalous properties will manifest.

15:57

Cars will begin to appear outside

15:59

in the

15:59

parking lot, SCP

16:01

twenty eight fifty four dash one

16:03

instances will then vacate their

16:05

cars and enter SCP twenty eight

16:07

fifty four. entities

16:10

observed during normal business hours include

16:12

entities whose bodies are the consistency

16:14

of mist and are observed

16:16

to be lacking discerning facial

16:19

features. Entities with

16:21

several pairs of wings and heads

16:23

similar to depictions in Christian

16:25

iconography. entities

16:27

of various sizes, shapes, and

16:29

anomalous abilities similar to

16:31

depictions of the Christian underworld. The

16:34

name Babylon Horse cornerstone is

16:36

prominently displayed over the entrance to the

16:38

establishment. In

16:40

side. Several

16:41

checkout lanes can be observed near the front

16:43

of the store, with aisles

16:46

occupying the majority of the remaining

16:48

space. In the back of the

16:50

supermarket, a storeroom

16:52

stores unused products for placement on

16:54

the shelves. the

16:56

SCP twenty eight fifty four dash one

16:58

instances will pay for the products

17:00

with a monetary currency not

17:02

recognized by any known government

17:04

or organization. The SCP

17:07

twenty eight fifty four dash one

17:09

instances will then reenter their cars

17:11

and disappear. Currency

17:13

discovered inside SCP twenty eight

17:15

fifty four displays a rough

17:17

depiction of a dwarf on the front.