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"Hey have you heard of the Zombie Drug?" I swiveled around on my chair, staring at my phone.

"Another one?" Pebble said, overlapping with Lucy as she said "what?" Their voices crackling through the computer's speakers.

"Are you watching the reel I sent you earlier?" Reese laughed, dumping more dye on her brush.

"Yeah, I looked it up. There's this drug up north people are getting addicted too. It eats their flesh and everything." I scrolled through the headlines on my phone. How have I not heard of this? It must've gotten drowned out by the guns and the trans-bans and book-bans and Global Warming.

"Wait seriously? I thought you were talking about the TLOU clip. Lemme look it up," Pebble's camera went dark as they switched to their browser.

"FUCK," Reese cursed, dropping her brush into the sink.

"You okay?" Lucy asked as Reese frantically scrubbed at her shirt.

"Noooo, I got bright red hair dye in my favorite shirt!" She groaned.

A video of a woman curled up in the bed of a truck.

"Next time you should wear a different shirt," Lucy scorned.

A man throwing himself into a bus.

"I'm not aboutta take my shirt off in front of you guys," she snapped back.

"Aw," I mumbled in response, chorusing with Lucy and Pebble.

A woman shaking, standing strangely in the middle of a road.

"Wait wait wait, any of y'all see the new Dungeons and Dragons movie?"

I looked up from my Zombie research.

"What? When?" Lucy, our DM, leaned into the screen, eyes alight with excitement.

"Omg, we should go see it together," Reese seemed to have gotten over the shirt, a bright pink blotch down the middle as she coated her hair in the greasy stuff.

"No, we should have another session- and you, Reese, should create a character," Pebble shook their head as Lucy and I jumped on board, trying to convince Reese to join one of our games. She just rolled her eyes and made more excuses that we all knew were bullshit.

I pulled up the trailer. It did look like a cool movie.