Regan’s Perspective
Day 89: As my family was searching the empty store for anything useful Beau found himself a little toy rocket ship that he really seemed to like. When our dad saw him with it he got pretty nervous, we all knew what something that made noise like that could do but Beau didn’t quite understand the consequences. Our father took the batteries out of the toy and set them down separately. We began to leave and when our parents weren’t looking I gave him back his rocket ship, without the batteries of course. We were walking in the woods and everything seemed perfectly fine, Beau was behind me and everyone else was in front of me. When my parents stopped walking and turned around the look on my fathers face was of disbelief and fear. I wasn’t quite sure what was going on until my dad began to run as fast as he could past me and toward Beau. I saw him pretend flying his toy and just then realized that he must have snuck the batteries when I turned around. One of the creatures got him and we all felt guilty… My mother because she had her hands empty and could have been carrying him, my father because he felt if he was able to reach him in time he could have saved him, and me because I was ignorant to the fact the he shouldn’t have had the toy in the first place.
Day 472: My father continues to try and create a homemade hearing aid for me, he tries and tries but they never work. I get frustrated because of course I want them to work but it’s false hope and I refuse to put this new one in. The next morning Marcus and our father are going into the woods to scout, my brother is scared and really doesn’t want to go, I volunteer and say that I will go but get shutdown, he insists that I stay at the farm with mother to help her. I eventually cave and put his newest hearing aid in my ear, it doesn’t do anything, I stormed off the farm and back to the trail in the woods where we lost Beau. This is an area where I feel I can visit him, I still blame myself for giving him the toy. It’s night time when I’m just getting back on the property and something doesn’t seem quite right, I see a light in the distance through the field and go to it, I find my brother hiding in the corn near by the flash light. He’s hiding from the monsters, they had found us and were trapped. We climbed one of the grain silos to make a fire on top of, to get our fathers attention so he can save us, Marcus manages to break the silo trap door, fall into it and create a bunch of noise. I jump in after him to try and hide from the creatures that were sure are on the way. One of the monsters hears us struggling in the grain trying to stay above it to breath, we had the silo trap door that broke off the roof on top of us as a small protective barrier. The monster was going crazy, tearing at the metal door and then suddenly it ran off, smashing a huge hole in the side of the silo. We find our dad outside looking for us, he ushered us into one of the trucks to keep us out of harms way. There was a monster right on top of our father, Marcus opened the door to the truck and began screaming to attract attention, it worked and now the was a terrifying monster tearing the truck apart trying to get at us. I then see my father standing, mouth open and hollering, saving Marcus and I. We regrouped with our mother and hid in the basement, hiding didn’t work because a creature found us. There we stood cowering in fear trying as hard as we could to not make a single noise of any sort. I’m looking around the room and I see where my dad had written “What is the weakness”. I remember back to the encounters I had with a monster, I reach to my ear and turn the hearing aid back on. Sure enough the frequency generated from the hearing aid is high enough pitch to disrupt the creatures extremely sensitive hearing. The noise was making it freak out, it was going crazy and had nowhere to run. Next to me is a PA system with a microphone hooked up to speakers, I put the hearing aid directly to the microphone to amplified the noise, it’s disables the monster and gives my mother time to get a good shot off with the shotgun in a place it’s armored skin isn’t protecting. This was the first one we’ve ever been able to kill. The loud gun shot got the attention of every monster in the area, they were in on their way to us but we now know their weakness.
Day 472: My father continues to try and create a homemade hearing aid for me, he tries and tries but they never work. I get frustrated because of course I want them to work but it’s false hope and I refuse to put this new one in. The next morning Marcus and our father are going into the woods to scout, my brother is scared and really doesn’t want to go, I volunteer and say that I will go but get shutdown, he insists that I stay at the farm with mother to help her. I eventually cave and put his newest hearing aid in my ear, it doesn’t do anything, I stormed off the farm and back to the trail in the woods where we lost Beau. This is an area where I feel I can visit him, I still blame myself for giving him the toy. It’s night time when I’m just getting back on the property and something doesn’t seem quite right, I see a light in the distance through the field and go to it, I find my brother hiding in the corn near by the flash light. He’s hiding from the monsters, they had found us and were trapped. We climbed one of the grain silos to make a fire on top of, to get our fathers attention so he can save us, Marcus manages to break the silo trap door, fall into it and create a bunch of noise. I jump in after him to try and hide from the creatures that were sure are on the way. One of the monsters hears us struggling in the grain trying to stay above it to breath, we had the silo trap door that broke off the roof on top of us as a small protective barrier. The monster was going crazy, tearing at the metal door and then suddenly it ran off, smashing a huge hole in the side of the silo. We find our dad outside looking for us, he ushered us into one of the trucks to keep us out of harms way. There was a monster right on top of our father, Marcus opened the door to the truck and began screaming to attract attention, it worked and now the was a terrifying monster tearing the truck apart trying to get at us. I then see my father standing, mouth open and hollering, saving Marcus and I. We regrouped with our mother and hid in the basement, hiding didn’t work because a creature found us. There we stood cowering in fear trying as hard as we could to not make a single noise of any sort. I’m looking around the room and I see where my dad had written “What is the weakness”. I remember back to the encounters I had with a monster, I reach to my ear and turn the hearing aid back on. Sure enough the frequency generated from the hearing aid is high enough pitch to disrupt the creatures extremely sensitive hearing. The noise was making it freak out, it was going crazy and had nowhere to run. Next to me is a PA system with a microphone hooked up to speakers, I put the hearing aid directly to the microphone to amplified the noise, it’s disables the monster and gives my mother time to get a good shot off with the shotgun in a place it’s armored skin isn’t protecting. This was the first one we’ve ever been able to kill. The loud gun shot got the attention of every monster in the area, they were in on their way to us but we now know their weakness.