Alex thins his mouth, looking back over his shoulder as if to check for something behind him, then at Miller.

"Look, I don't-- I don't understand it, alright, but it ain't that protocrap." He really, really hoped it wasn't, anyway. "But you haven't- you haven't been like, hearin' people? People that you know, or -- or woken up sweatin' so much that it's just - squeezin' all the water in you out to the floor till you can't even walk--"