Good use of eye dialect to define your characters (or course, you’re a dab hand at this) and an interesting contrast to the rather more modern-feeling previous installment – which leaves me scrabbling to pinpoint the period. 1950s perhaps?

I like this. It broadens the spectrum of the story and begins to place it into a time context. Still a lot to discover. You’ve given much to consider.

The infection is nearly a person here..“The Creep”.
It seems that it might be time to go, you know, once the ‘business’ is finished and all.