Day 373

The greenhouse was full of children's drawings.
It had been centuries since humans had been anywhere near the place, nuclear fallout and all.
Entire area was closed off ever since, remote cameras had been set up but they'd never worked.
Well, now they were.
That's when the drawings began to appear.

It was just the one camera at first,on the outskirts of the area.
The reports varied from convenience shop to motel but they all showed the same image.
A staticky one for sure, you could hardly see it in most photos but there were clearer ones.
They showed it everywhere, that childish scribble.
Claimed it was restless spirits, claimed it was a prank.

Then they began to spread, nearly every week a different camera would switch itself on.
Neatly every week a new drawing would be found in that same style.
The cameras were in stranger and stranger places from the underside of a car to the greenhouse.
Always with the same static overtone, radiation interference supposedly.
The drawings were fairly innocuous, children playing or families smiling under a black sun.

Yes, some details of the pictures and parts of the landscape were distorted and the wrong size.
Radiation was blamed again but reports of unusually large flies came from neighbouring sites.
Yes, people began to await the new feeds with religious temperament.
People are just like that - if it scares you then appease it, even if it isn't alive.
I think they're just waiting to see who or what is behind all of this.

The latest feed seemed to come from a handheld camera.
You could see a human-ish shadow surrounding the image inside of the bathroom.
Too bad there were no reflective surfaces, it left too much to the imagination and people feared.
Nobody could guess what it was, there was no sound recorded so we didn't know if it breathed.
They are talking now about going in to investigate.

I think that's just what it wants.
All these images must be a taunt, it wants us to go in.
But why cameras... and why the guise of a child of all things?
If anything the use of a vulnerable figure makes people more worried, more rash.
They'll bring weapons... they probably won't be back.

They haven't checked in via radio for days now.
The new feed is due any hour and we hope and fear that we'll see them.
Whatever state they are in, dead or worse - alive.
Will we be able to hear their screams as the radiated air burns them from the inside?
Hopefully whatever is in there will get to the poor bastards first.