They saw a large man with brown hair crouched over the toilet. He was wearing a baseball cap in addition to an ill fitting red and white striped shirt and blue shorts, as well as a pair of white socks and black shoes. The man turned his head as he heard Dan and Herbert approached and they saw he had blue-gray eyes.
"It wasn't me! I didn't do it!" the man exclaimed.
"Do what?" Dan and Herbert asked in perfect unison.
"I didn't do anything! I...I swear! He was like this when I got here..."
Both Dan and Herbert were suspicious about him as he also knew the gender of the person in the fridge and decided to discuss it when they were out of the man's range of hearing, much to Herbert's chagrin.
"My name's Dan Cain," Dan said.
"West. Herbert West." He looked at Dan and sighed a little because he was still unable to believe he was going along with this, even if Dan was his friend. "We're making our way through town trying to see if we can find a trace of his girlfriend Meg."
"Um...Edwin."
"Edwin, who's that dead kid stuffed in the fridge in the kitchen?" Dan asked.
"I didn't do it. I swear I didn't kill anybody."
That was when Herbert and Dan were quite sure he was lying.
"That's not what we were asking you," Herbert sighed.
"You're not friends with a..." He thought very carefully about how to phrase a question concerning the corpse that killed Meg. "...half-burnt zombie with one arm, are you?"
"Half-burnt zombie with one arm? I don't know what yer talkin' about. Honest. But I did see some weird lookin' monsters. They scared the hell outta me, so I ran in here." Herbert uttered a monosyllabic laugh and smiled to cover it up when Edwin looked at him.
"Well, I guess this place isn't too safe. What happened here anyway?"
"Uh, I...I told ya, I don't know. I'm not even from this town. I just, I just..."
"You too? Something just brought you here, right?"
"Umm...yeah. You could say that."
"I doubt it's because his car broke down..." Herbert said loudly.
"Herbert!"
"I didn't say anything," he said innocently.
"Well, whatever it is...I think you'd better get out of here soon."
"Yeah, yer right. What about you two?"
"We'll leave as soon as we're done here. Edwin...be careful."
"Dan, Herbert, I...I...um...you be careful, too."