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"DECONTAMINATION — WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?" Glenn questioned as Rick led him, Arden, Shane, and T-Dog down the stairs to the generator room which she had pointed them in the direction of.
"I don't like the way Jenner clammed up. The way he just wandered off like that," Shane explained as they reached the bottom.
"You would be right to think that. Decontamination isn't so much like a nice wash down of the lab - it's more like obliterating the entire thing," Arden elaborated, finally shedding some much needed light on the situation for her companions.
T-Dog went on to voice his suspicions about how Jenner must be crazy, while the others just wore grave looks on their faces. They turned the corner and Arden was first to enter the room, knowing the building best out of all of them. Everyone had flashlights, but the upper lighting systems turned on once they entered.
She hadn't been down there much and the room was a maze. "Check that way," Rick ordered them, pointing to the right while he beckoned Shane to come with him on the left. Her eyes scanned everything that they passed as the other two followed behind her and she felt unsettled. Jenner wouldn't really try to blow them up, would he?
"So, uh, why is decontaminating, uh, necessary?" Glenn asked from behind her. She wanted to smile at his nervousness, it was a sort of real thing that tethered her back to reality. But the situation was weighing down on her more than she would've liked.
"Regularly it's so that any virus we're looking at in here doesn't get out there," she responded, gesturing in the general direction of 'outside' as she did so. "But I don't understand what's happening now."
It was the truth. The mechanics of the building were a mystery to her, or at least a bit of a mystery, Jenner was much more versed in how the building worked.
"Oh," Glenn let out in response, clearly not wanting to hear much more whether that be about them possibly blowing up or her not knowing as much as would be helpful. She couldn't exactly be blamed for her lack of knowledge, as it was only her second week on the job when the outbreak began. Sure, she had all the qualifications, but her career was so new she was not nearly as experienced as Jenner was.
All of the sudden the lights flickered and left them in complete darkness for a moment. "Emergency lighting on." A more dim light now surrounded them and Arden, Glenn, and T-Dog jogging back to the direction that Rick and Shane had headed in.
"Hey, you guys kill the lights?" Glenn asked. Shane and Rick were leaning down by what looked like a fuel tank.
"Nah, it just went out," Shane answered as he and Rick continued to observe the tank.
