[What about a zombie. Can he come back as a zombie? It's 2007, we're near the big zombie movie boom, right? They could get on that train.]
Outside's worse? [Being stuck in there all day was making him wonder if there even was an outside. So many people seemed to conveniently disappear the second he looked away from them. If there were these phantom people who just existed inside the mall, what was outside the mall? A shitstorm, apparently.]
I- [he coughs again, another splattering of black goop] I don't even know if I had a boss. [Maybe his "role" did but he was pretty much alone the whole day.] If there was a person I'd tell them I quit.
[He pulls back his hand, stares at the goop, considers whether it's even worth the effort to try and wipe it off on something. He sighs.] ... I was in the food court. [He does finally answer.]
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Outside's worse? [Being stuck in there all day was making him wonder if there even was an outside. So many people seemed to conveniently disappear the second he looked away from them. If there were these phantom people who just existed inside the mall, what was outside the mall? A shitstorm, apparently.]
I- [he coughs again, another splattering of black goop] I don't even know if I had a boss. [Maybe his "role" did but he was pretty much alone the whole day.] If there was a person I'd tell them I quit.
[He pulls back his hand, stares at the goop, considers whether it's even worth the effort to try and wipe it off on something. He sighs.] ... I was in the food court. [He does finally answer.]