Her nose was still bleeding. Her head pounded. But her eyes were clear. She looked past Max, past the screaming shoppers, past the glittering storefronts, and saw the truth of it: the vents beneath their feet were filled with meat. The walls of the movie theater were sweating organic slime. The elevator shaft where Steve and Dustin had disappeared led not to a basement but to a stomach.
He threw open the cabin door. The sky above Hawkins had turned the color of a bruise. Deep purple and green, churning like a slow-motion hurricane. At its center, directly above Starcourt Mall, a single red thread of lightning touched the earth and did not leave. Stranger Things - Season 3- Episode 5 -
She wasn’t drinking it. Her nose had begun to bleed ten minutes ago, a thin, dark trickle that Max noticed before anyone else. Her nose was still bleeding
“The Key opens the gate. The Flayed feed the Key. When the heart beats, the Mind Flayer walks again. Not in the Upside Down. Here.” She looked past Max, past the screaming shoppers,