Ravi nodded, understanding Richie's question entirely. "If you knew three zombies and two of them were your best friends and one was, as you put it, a bad dude, and you were developing a cure but you weren't certain of the side effects and your lab rats were occasionally rotting to death overnight, who would you want to be your first bipedal test subject?" Blaine was a guinea pig, except a lying and thieving and sleeping with Peyton one.
He raised his eyebrows as he took a break from his own story and listened to Richie's. And it was insanely weirder. "Some sort of memetic evil space clown?" he murmured, curiously. Or it worked the way Ciro's portals did - in a way he'd never understand. "Eleven year olds, against an alien clown who ate children?" he asked. He wanted to ask where all the adults were, but hence the hypnotism. "And what happened?"