Planet Xeno

The next section in Black Hole is somewhat confusing to me. Keith and his friends are in the woods smoking weed. Keith talks about "Planet xeno" and how difficult it was to get there but when you did it was beautiful. "It was like being in a cocoon...a soft insulated green world". It was basically just Keith and his friends favorite place to smoke, "The perfect place to get stoned...that is, until all the weird shit started coming down..." Keith is zoning out while his friends talk about "the bug" that's going around, Keith's friend, Todd saw this other guy Rob in the bathroom at school "checking himself out" but was actually looking at the small mouth on his chest. They realize that Keith hasn't said anything for a while, he's looking in the woods frightened because he sees something or someone. Instead of ignoring it Keith and his friends try to figure out what it is. They go deeper into the woods and find a baby doll strapped to a tree, a bunch of trails running up the hillside, and a tent filled with clothes, comics, and candy bars. As Keiths friends are raiding through the tent he goes off further into the woods by himself and finds skin that was shed off by a girl, all of her skin. This is the part that is confusing to me, I think that the skin belongs to Chris. In the next section she has a dream of herself ripping off her skin in the woods, so I'm unsure if it is in fact a dream or reality. Then he hears someone behind him, it's a man that is horribly disfigured. "It was just too fucked up to be human, but somehow, deep down inside I knew it was. His mouth was all busted up...broken teeth sticking out of pink gristle...his lips started moving and wet, sloppy sounds came out." As he is rushing to get out of the woods he sees others...dark figures moving in the woods.