We mustn't look outside when the sirens go off tonight but the newsreader won't say why. Thousands of viewers have called, emailed and texted asking for details that he refuses to give. It got to the point where the station stopped taking incoming messages at all, leaving us in the dark.
There is nothing unusual about the town, despite the warnings that suggest we are in the midst of something Very Wrong. The scarecrows are still tethered to their poles and nobody's dumb enough to let them go free for the night so they can't be the reason. The abandoned asylum is locked up and the moat was recently blessed again so nothing's getting past that. Even the creeping ivy that killed eight people last summer is now asleep for the winter.
If all our worst fears are currently safe and sound in their confinement, if the news station won't tell us what's coming and wants us to lock ourselves away in windowless rooms when a siren goes off, if we're expected to wait for some unnamed murder-inducing event to just slip past our homes and not pay us any mind then surely it can't be that bad.
If something wants us dead then no amount of sitting about with our eyes closed would stop that.
Right?
There is nothing unusual about the town, despite the warnings that suggest we are in the midst of something Very Wrong. The scarecrows are still tethered to their poles and nobody's dumb enough to let them go free for the night so they can't be the reason. The abandoned asylum is locked up and the moat was recently blessed again so nothing's getting past that. Even the creeping ivy that killed eight people last summer is now asleep for the winter.
If all our worst fears are currently safe and sound in their confinement, if the news station won't tell us what's coming and wants us to lock ourselves away in windowless rooms when a siren goes off, if we're expected to wait for some unnamed murder-inducing event to just slip past our homes and not pay us any mind then surely it can't be that bad.
If something wants us dead then no amount of sitting about with our eyes closed would stop that.
Right?
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