Despite how Johnny was still fairly certain he was hallucinating, he had to grin at the batlike creature. "Glad ya share my opinion a the fucker. 'm Johnny. Who're ya, an' what's a Shade?"

Maybe he wasn't hallucinating. He didn't think his mind could come up with something like the bat-Shade-thing. Of course, that would mean this shit was really happening, which led him back to hallucinating.

In about five minutes, the smoke detector--or lack of it--would confirm one way or the other.