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Chapter Seven: Home with a View
Eliot ran to the homestead. It was dark and vacant. Most shacks like this did not have electricity or running water, so it was pretty much just a shanty. The plywood walls were most dilapidated, but something had push them aside, show mostly the wood frame. Still, Eliot felt it to be a temporary shelter as he gathered his thoughts, as he currently had no real plan.
This shack seemed vacant, and oh boy, there was a lot of blood.
Suddenly he heard a voice say, “Hugh!” With nowhere to go Eliot played dead, and down he went. Now laying on blood he took some and rubbed it on his face. “What was he doing'” he thought as he laid there, making himself look even more like a tasty snack for a Dog-man hybrid or Bigfoot Creature.
He heard sinister laughter, that seemed to be approaching the shack, then upstairs, “Bang, bang.” Eliot chose the “bang bang” and ran upstairs.
Note: why didn’t he just run back down the woodland hill to Jae’s homestead? Probably because, he wasn’t thinking after being hit with infrasound. Also, he saw Watchers as he was coming up the hill. Were there any good options?
Note: In this case Watchers, meaning, a category of Bigfoot Creatures posted in a location, to just watch, and report. In other words, the Scarred One, was not alone. Bigfoot Creatures rarely are.
Eliot, out of supplies and “creative” weapons, pulled his 9MM handgun. He rocked a round into the chamber and took off the safety, then put it back into the unclasped holster. No good against giant hairy people, right? That’s what he had been told, by Jae, Bigfoot Publications, Podcasts, and more. Basically, eyewitness accounts testify to this. Some have claimed to kill Bigfoot Creatures with a bullet, but proof is rare. Most say they did not even try, due to three factors: shock, seemed too huge to do any good, and it looked human in the face.
Eliot turned to prayer, like charging a battery that he was preparing to ignite. One step at a time.
Back to the blood. Why all the blood? He could only presume that feeding had happened.
Note: perhaps the confused neighbors that arrived at Jae’s house that night, were the only survivors this night from this off-grid community.
Note: Later it would be noted that these neighbors were the ones that believed in Bigfoot. The dead, were those that hadn’t.
Creaking up the stairs Eliot started talking in different voices; a trick, to make a Bigfoot Creature think you are not alone. Use your imagination, what are some things you would say in the fake conversation.
Eliot, heard laughter again, the same, but also another. The tone of voice that had said “Hugh” was now snickering.
Eliot presumed that he was not fooling anybody. He found an opening in the roof and went up, without having to enter the second floor.
Note: why do people always go up, where there is no escape?
The rooftop provided a nice, yet false sense of security. Anyone or anything could crawl up like he did. An average Bigfoot Creature could push the whole building down. In a horror move a Creature would reach through the roof, and pull Eliot down to his doom.
But a few more seconds to think, think. So hard to think!
From the rooftop, Eliot watched, as there was movement on the game trail. It seemed that the Bigfoot Creatures harassing Jae, all this time, was a means to distract her, from other secretive things. Looked like a Caravan on foot, walking down the north side of the trail, through the cow pasture, to the hidden lake which was beyond the pasture in a cluster of trees.
He could see an occasional cluster of large Creatures. At times it seemed that the groups were laboring, as if bound, as prisoners. Some groupings were carefree as if going voluntarily; a field trip, perhaps. With whom? Eliot saw a Dog-man, who was called upon to take him out once it got “spiritual.” Bigfoot Creatures distracting J, as a cover, so that a Bigfoot Caravan can make its way down the hill.
Text to Jae, “Many Bigfoot Creatures being led down the game trail by Scarred One and Dogman.”
It was crazy for Jae and Shakoda to come to Eliot, and more likely that I should head back to his home which was about a half mile east. Eliot wondered if he should stay and learn, or go back to J’s and never know. Most that run into Bigfoot escape as soon as they can, if at all possible, and then they never know any more than that, because they really get that chance again. The flee or fight function within us; flee usually wins out. Eliot was not given the chance to flee, and he was not sure if he had done any fighting yet, mostly, surviving.
Ok, time to go back. Wait, something was coming. Eliot noticed it as he crawled back down to the hole in the ceiling. Something was in the house. Also, something, or many things were surrounding the house, you get Just sense it.
Text from Jae: “Are you OK? Sending Fire!” Then…
Eliot’s Phone: Dead! At this point the phone was a liability, but he kept it. He knew he would have use for it later.
And then it started to rain, fire!
