"Or eats them," Wally suggested. "Maybe that's why it attacks the patients, it's really after their pens. It vants to suck your ink!" He laughed at that and smiled encouragingly at Tony. Even lame jokes were better than being down, right?

Though his attempt as (kinda bad) humour was short-lived, fading away when Tony brought up the file rooms. "There was someone there," he said with a shrug. "One of those brainwashed patients. She had a gun that fired plants. But we did okay."