Buddy Eagleton

Buddy first appears in chapter 3 as another bag boy presumably Norm's age. He is very rarely mentioned, though does try and bring ideas up on how to defend the store by mentioning there was mini flamethrower-esk things which had to be sent back because people weren't buying. He was also said to have traveled outside at one point, most likely seeing something horrible as David said Buddy had "no comment" about the incident. He becomes a main character when David's group at the time, consisting on himself, Buddy, Jim, Mike, Dan, Ollie and Hilda have to travel to the pharmacy to get supplies for a wounded Mrs. Clapham. In the novel we are given a brief visual of Buddy as having very broad shoulders. After getting some supplies, the group is forced to run back to the store after Jim runs off and is attacked by what David realizes too late is spider creatures which have made a nest in the pharmacy. Just as David realizes what the strands are, Buddy has corrosive webbing lassoed around his thigh severing an artery. He goes into shock and is knocked out, surviving for a short time before eventually bleeding out, dying in his sleep.