a few weeks later..
October 12th, 2004October 31st, 2005
All hallow’s eve. I wonder if there’s a special meaning if it’s nighttime for the entirety of halloween.
Everyone still in town received a visit from the military this morning, pleasant for me. I don’t know where they took my neighbor, however. They brought information with them. I wish I had a costume to wear, but I didn’t know it was this close. Time flies when the sun’s away, and you’re freezing.
The soldier told me that we’d have power within a week, if things go well. Apparently, the nuke plant’s emergency shut-off worked too well - the magnetic shift caused all sorts of alarms to go off. If it hadn’t happened in the middle of the night, I would have probably noticed something strange was going on.
A few minutes after the soldier left, I heard some shouting from outside. When I looked, I saw them dragging my neighbor by his coat into the back of a half-ton truck. His hands were covered in blood, and his eyes looked crazy. Some people can’t handle change, it seems.
I found my old watch, and got it set to the time the soldier gave me. I’m going to start writing in this journal once a day. If this is found without me, the last entry will probably be within 24 hours of my death - or worse.
The rest of the day was uneventful, until about 10pm. The southern sky lit up with what looked like the Aurora Borealis, but a strange, silvery color. If I remember my high school chemistry correctly, this indicates either aluminum or titanium oxide in the atmosphere when the solar winds’ hit.
Stranger and stranger. I’m hoping to get a ride out of town next week, out to the Air Force Base. I’d heard they were airlifting people to another, unnamed, city.
cool… looking forward to more!