Chapter 8
In the run-down apartment, Brocc, Celerity, and Kendall watched a flickering television as a doughnut hole with lipstick, tapioca earrings, and sugary eyebrows delivered the evening news. She spoke in a studio with the skyline of New Eaton in the background. An image of Brocc, Celerity, and Frank floated in a square next to her with the caption, ATTACK!
“Citizens of the Middle Rind are struggling to understand a violent terrorist attack that disrupted the Festival of the Harvest. Officials say that a group of vegetables pretending to be prisoners hijacked the event, killing Gourmans and humans alike.”
Several humans appeared in a succession of fast cuts, talking into a field reporter’s microphone.
“The vegetables were killing everyone. I thought I was going to die.”
“They we
