Encounter by Kelly Cahill

Author:Kelly Cahill
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, pdf
Published: 2012-05-08T11:14:02+00:00

CHAPTER 8

Wendy’s eyes were wide with surprise. It was obvious that my last statement had been completely contrary to whatever she’d anticipated. I could understand that as I didn’t know of anywhere else, in any of the literature that I had subsequently read on this subject, where these creatures are said to have charged at human beings.

Yet that is exactly what they did.

‘En masse,’ I said to Wendy, ‘These beings, led by the first one — I assume he was the leader — rushed at us in an orderly formation, like troops. And as they did, they started to accelerate across the 150 metres between us. They seemed to be flying or gliding across the ground, just inches above it but still upright.

‘In the very last instant, when they were just about upon us, I distinctly remember thinking that they were white. This may be because they were white all the while, and the fact that they had been silhouetted against the blue light had made them appear dark. But considering the later manifestations of dark beings, it doesn’t seem likely. It may also be that the energy they were utilising to move at such rapid speed was causing them to glow white. I don’t know for sure, as I saw the white for only a fraction of a second.

‘As they got closer to us they continued to emanate this horror-inducing energy, which I fought against, and which I tried to warn the others about. It took three seconds flat for them to cover that distance. One hundred and fifty metres — I don’t know what the world record time for that is, but a person couldn’t run at that speed so it doesn’t matter. Their legs were not moving, their arms weren’t pumping, and they didn’t jump. They were gliding, and they were on us like lightning.’

‘Now,’ Wendy said, still wide-eyed, ‘because there was some distance between you and the other people, did the aliens split their charge? Did some go towards them and some to you?’

‘Yes, they did. They got about half way across the field and then split up, one group coming toward us and the other zooming over to the others. It was organised, no question about that.’

Those eyes! My own eyes were locked to them, and if I could see anything else in the surroundings it was due solely to my peripheral vision. If I hadn’t been glued to their eyes in that way, I might have turned and run, if there had been any time.

But there was not, and I stood rooted to the ground. The roaring horror-energy was still hitting me as they rushed at us, and my thoughts were scattered by it, like a deck of cards flung into the air. There was a sound, like a roaring wind, inside my head and I couldn’t seem to focus my mind at all. It was as if something was interfering with the way my brain worked! It left me with little more than raw instinct to reason with, and I believe that was one of its intended effects.

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