fandomtownies | Turtle and Canary, Thursday

Hank huddled in the janitor's closet with Turtle's and Jane's cages, where he'd been since yesterday. Outside the door, he could still hear the funny people going through the store aisle by aisle, examining things. They'd seemed to have forgotten about him for the moment, which was good.

"This ingredient list is incorrect."

"We do not understand how one determines whether a 'coloring' or 'flavoring' is artificial."

"We are instructed to 'keep out of reach of children'."

Yesterday, when they'd first entered the store, they had made the mistake of selecting the wrong brand of cheese to look at, so the panda had tried to hurt them. The panda wasn't there anymore. That was when Hank had grabbed the cages and run.

He was starting to get lightheaded and woozy from the lack of food and water and from all the disinfectant fumes. He was cramped from sitting for so long. And he really, really needed to pee.

All of a sudden the closet door disappeared, and one of the people loomed over him. "Your inventory is incomplete," the man informed him, holding out one of the store's suppliers' catalogs. "There is an absence of something called 'duct tape'. Explain."

Forgetting his fear for the moment, Hank lunged at the man, intending to shake some sense into him. "WHAT IS WITH ALL THE POP QUIZZES??!?!"

And then Hank was gone.

Today's Squishy flavors: OUT OF ORDER

(NFI, mostly, but you can totally come in and loot the empty store.)