We strung up whatever was left Jamie so those things might think we were all dead. For a while we thought the rest of us might survive this. They didn't come any further than Jamie's corpse for almost a week, they just sniffed at it and wandered off.
I guess we never thought that they would have been able to smell us too once the rain dulled the smell of rotting meat. Still, Jamie did his part and kept us safe for long enough that we were able to pull together an escape plan.
The barn we'd been hiding out in gave us a great vantage point over the rest of the farm so when we spotted the old jeep by the pig pens we just knew what we had to do. If we'd had more time we could have gone to the house further out and found the keys instead of mashing wires about until something worked but those things were impatient.
We never even came up with a name for them, never had the time to. If you pictured a fox the size of a horse with a face that looks halfway between a spider and a shitload of teeth you'd roughly get what we encountered. They're smart too, smarter than we expected...smart enough to use ladders with those rope-like hands they have.
If it hadn't been for Lou getting one of those I'm-being-watched feelings we'd probably all be dead. While we were still plotting he turned back and started screaming and there was one of them just peeping their head up over the ledge, staring at us with one its bulging yellow eyes.
We all climbed out of the window and just jumped. Me and Jay managed to roll ourselves out of it but Lou landed bad. We heard something snap when he hit the floor and he just lay there twitching. I Jay wanted to go back for him but those things came 'round the building before we could do anything.
They didn't chase us when we got the jeep going. They just stood there, about nine of them, all bloodstained and tilting their heads like they couldn't understand why we were leaving. Jay floored it and never looked back. I couldn't stop looking back just in case they tried to chase us, they probably could have caught us too.
I just don't understand what made them stop.
I guess we never thought that they would have been able to smell us too once the rain dulled the smell of rotting meat. Still, Jamie did his part and kept us safe for long enough that we were able to pull together an escape plan.
The barn we'd been hiding out in gave us a great vantage point over the rest of the farm so when we spotted the old jeep by the pig pens we just knew what we had to do. If we'd had more time we could have gone to the house further out and found the keys instead of mashing wires about until something worked but those things were impatient.
We never even came up with a name for them, never had the time to. If you pictured a fox the size of a horse with a face that looks halfway between a spider and a shitload of teeth you'd roughly get what we encountered. They're smart too, smarter than we expected...smart enough to use ladders with those rope-like hands they have.
If it hadn't been for Lou getting one of those I'm-being-watched feelings we'd probably all be dead. While we were still plotting he turned back and started screaming and there was one of them just peeping their head up over the ledge, staring at us with one its bulging yellow eyes.
We all climbed out of the window and just jumped. Me and Jay managed to roll ourselves out of it but Lou landed bad. We heard something snap when he hit the floor and he just lay there twitching. I Jay wanted to go back for him but those things came 'round the building before we could do anything.
They didn't chase us when we got the jeep going. They just stood there, about nine of them, all bloodstained and tilting their heads like they couldn't understand why we were leaving. Jay floored it and never looked back. I couldn't stop looking back just in case they tried to chase us, they probably could have caught us too.
I just don't understand what made them stop.
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