They wanted to know where the other podlings were? Here was one. He ran over to them--he'd BEEN running. He was panting.

"Oh thank you! People! There are people! Fuck, do any of you have guns? I saw a thing! It was an alien thing! Stacy wouldn't let me have a gun--said I was too high-strung. It didn't see me, but it's a block over, some kind of fucking monster!"

He was freaked. Immensely freaked.