What happened in campus yesterday. It’s all over the news….
I don’t think I can write about it now. I’ll try later.
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Alright, I think I can write now. I’m still not feeling well, and I think I might throw up if I think too much about the details, but I’ll try to describe what happened. I saw two girls being killed today by police.
I was leaving the dining yesterday noon. I had just finished having lunch, and just as I was eating a cookie was dessert, while I was walking towards my residence hall, I noticed a commotion to the left. There was a group of people forming a circle, some were screaming and others were yelling, trying to draw attention. I assumed two people had got into a fight, and I approached the scene to see what exactly was going on. That’s when I heard the horror-struck screaming, and saw some people taking a step back. I hastened my pace and finally reached the circle, and by then some people were turning and running away from the scene.
What I saw there…shit, I don’t even know what it was. All I know is two girls were covered in blood, eating other people. They were biting off their arms, their legs, even their necks, just eating it like you would eat a piece of meat. That was enough to cause you nightmares, but then they looked up, staring right at me, and their eyes. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a state like theirs. So devoid of life, or recognition…of any semblance of humanity. They were empty. Just empty.
I was frozen, like some spell had been cast on me, until the one to the left stood up, and began approaching me. Her clothes were covered in blood, and her mouth was an even bigger mess. I won’t say how exactly, you can use your imagination, if you must. That’s when the spell was broken, and my small steps backwards led to me turning around and running for my life, heading back towards the dining hall. Many students were going there too. I reached for the door, opened it and got inside, and just as soon as I was in someone pushed me aside. I feel to the floor; a lady who worked at the dining hall was locking the door. I crawled backwards, until I hit a wall and then got up, walking away from the doors.
“I heard rumours.” The lady said, partly to me, partly to herself. “They said it happened to the Alssahrans. They say it’s happening to the Sartorians. It’s finally come here.”
They? It? What on Artemia was the talking about? I didn’t really have time to think of it. The noise inside the hall eventually got louder, something about the sick girls. I looked out the window and saw a couple of Campus Security officers approaching the girls. They were talking to them, but they ignored the officers. They approached the girls, and I’m not sure what happened, but they ended up cuffing them. One of the officers ended up getting an ugly bite in the arm from one of the girls.
By now around 15 minutes had passed. We opened the doors of the dining hall and went outside. That’s when we heard police sirens, and sure enough, two police cards and a van with a biohazard symbol on the side. They drove into the garden, heading towards the officers that were taking the girls to the Campus Security building. It’s curious how that’s the one detail I remember the most: them driving through the garden, ruining the plants as they went at full speed to catch the girls. It was an apocalypse out there, but for some reason I cared about the plants. They parked right in front of them, four officers got out of their cards. They quickly walked towards the girls, drew their guns and…well they just shot the girls. They walked, approached them, and they just pulled the fucking trigger, and blew the girls’ brains. They dropped to the ground right then and there. The Campus Security officers took some steps back, obviously shaken, but then the van opened and a group of people in biohazard suits appeared, carrying plastic coffins. They put both girls in there, and made the officers follow them inside the van.
I’d had enough. I don’t know how, but before I noticed I was inside my room, just leaning against the door, agitated and sweating like I’d run a 10K. I heard a voice, probably through a megaphone, asking all those had been in contact with the girls, or close to them, to submit themselves for a medical examination. Fuck that, I wasn’t going to find out what their “examination” involved.
Markos arrived minutes after I did, also sweating, also agitated, with a face stricken with horror. He didn’t talk much since then. We put some food in the microwave and had that for dinner. We didn’t want to go out to the dining hall that night.
I’m scared. I don’t know what exact happened yesterday, but I know it was wrong. It was…it was unnatural. Those girls weren’t just sick, no matter what those Health Ministry leaflets keep saying. There was something seriously wrong with them, and I’m not sure I want to be nearby when we find out what they had.
I don’t know. Maybe I should speed up my travel plans. There still are domestic flights, so I could go to my parents’ up in the Gate Islands. Screw the classes. I’d rather lose a few points and take my chances with it, than he around when this blow up, if it does. I told Markos, and based on how he answered, he’d leave right now if he could.
Anyway, I think I’ll stop now. I said more than I planned, and I sure didn’t like remembering what happened today. I think I’ll just get some sleep, and call my parents tomorrow morning. Hopefully I won’t have nightmares tonight.