Night 49: Pet Supply Place

[bprd_fishman]

[ From here.]And this was not the Sun Room. Or any room at Landel's that he'd seen. The odd twisting feeling made Abe's hand slip from the door handle against his will and it slammed shut, leaving him in a far more cramped room that smelled faintly of animal food and wood shavings. "What in the world?" he whispered as he reached for his flashlight

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[its_the_mileage]

Why would the store be in this kind of mess again? Indy didn't have a clue. It was certainly possible that the store had already been ransacked tonight by other patients who'd ended up there, but he wondered if that mess in the leash aisle didn't look a little familiar. It couldn't really be that the town was--partially--cleaned up during the day and went back to the same battered state at night. None of it made any sense.

"We only have two nights to base our understanding on. It's too soon to jump to conclusions," he cautioned, ever the scientist. There was at least something mildly comforting in looking at it that way: what was happening wasn't nonsensical, they just didn't have enough data to piece together the explanation that'd make order out of the apparent chaos. Indy tried not to think about how slim the odds of their actually getting that data were.

There didn't seem to be much else to learn here for the moment, and neither Dent nor the kid looked inclined to take anything. Indy turned around and went out the way they'd entered.

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