The Funeral Pyre
Evan’s speech roused the remaining students, but the rain drove us inside, and after the adrenaline wore off many of them realized what just happened. The cried, hysterically as the shock hit them. I sat in the corner of the room, not sure what to do, overcome by the scene. Before the candles were lit, it was just people crying in the dark. They had just seen the slaughter of hundreds of monsters that could have easily killed them. They lost people as well.
Edgar, Martha, and the nurse tried to comfort as many of the students as possible, and while that happened, Evan held a small conference on the next floor with Levi, Emma, Lauren and I.
“What happened?” Evan asked. He appeared calm, but underneath I could tell he was furious.
“There was a group by the gate,” Emma said.
“I saw them on the way out,” Evan said, “it was only a couple. The guys at the gate should have handled them.”
“Another group came later that day,” she said, “it was bigger, but Travis convinced Kevin and Marshall to let them in. He wanted to see how many he could take on. More kept coming, and they overran the gate. Next thing we knew an entire herd was marching at us. We barely got the defenses up, and the people inside. It was chaos. I heard Sam’s rifle going off, and we panicked. I had never seen anything like it before. They just kept…
