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E: What kind of lab makes little talking, err, monsters for kids? What was its name?
ANOMALY: It was a secret laboratory.
ANOMALY: There was no official name.
ANOMALY: The supervisors wanted to appear uninvolved.
ANOMALY: A very hush hush affair.
ANOMALY: What the researchers and technicans called it was the "Factory of Worms."
ANOMALY: They despised it.
ANOMALY: They despised working there.
ANOMALY: Their little doubts and hates grew and grew.
ANOMALY: Eventually something had to give way.
ANOMALY: Men break faster than their ideas.
E: Seems like some office politics or some mental breakdown happened. Did it?
ANOMALY: You could say that.
ANOMALY: But I only know what others tell me.
ANOMALY: <span class="mu-b">And what I heard was not what I saw.</span>
E: So you don't have the full story then.
ANOMALY: Exactly.
E: Also, you're not a worm.
A fat little tongue licks the inside of the flask.
ANOMALY: I eat the worms.
ANOMALY: In fact.
ANOMALY: We all enjoyed the little mealworms.
ANOMALY: They bred vermin in the Factory.
ANOMALY: Those worms made for the perfect meal.
ANOMALY: Mashed with a little bit of malk.
ANOMALY: "Malk. It does a body good."
BOTH: Mmmm, malk.
Employee E scratches his chin.
E: How did the facility fall, from what you understand?
ANOMALY: Casade of initially unrelated disasters in tandem.
ANOMALY: A control switch failed.
ANOMALY: A backup system collapsed.
ANOMALY: The wrong experiment was ordered.
ANOMALY: The wrong stimulus was selected.
ANOMALY: Maybe that's what happened.
ANOMALY: Everyone was screaming.
ANOMALY: Everything was on red alert.
ANOMALY: I don't know everything.
ANOMALY: <span class="mu-i">C'est la vie.</span>
ANOMALY: If you were to go down there today.
ANOMALY: Or maybe sooner.
ANOMALY: You would be able get back right on time.
ANOMALY: The facility will still be intact.
ANOMALY: So many wonderful oddities to extract.
E: That sounds more like an invitation to a trap than a promise.
The anomaly shifts into a closed set of teeth.
ANOMALY: From the day of my birth.
ANOMALY: I had no true connection to those other entities and creations.
ANOMALY: It was only me and my researchers.
ANOMALY: I have no collaborators nor conspirators.
ANOMALY: Just friends.
E: Huh.
E stays silent.
E: Well, that's all I got.
E: Peace, peace!
ANOMALY: Later.
Employee E exits the containment cell as the anomaly watches very very closely.
