Billy looked at the track and the four humans tied to it, struggling to break their bonds. He looked at the side track and its singular victim, who seemed to have given up trying to escape.
Billy could hear the machine far down the track. An hour, maybe up to two. He looked at the device next to him. If he pushed it…
He turned away and grabbed his phone.
“Hey, Joe? Yeah, got a situation here. How close are you? And how hungry?”