“And what happened next, Mr. King?”
“What do you think happened? They died. We tried the best we could, but they died.”
“Everyone? But you’re here. If everyone died, how did you survive?”
Shawn glared.
“We managed to get a lot of them in the basement. Then the lights went out and the children screamed, dozens of them, all at once.
“We stayed down there for a whole day. Twenty-four hours. It began to stink. Mr. Shelby, the gym teacher, went up to investigate. That’s how he put it, ‘I’m going up to investigate. I’ll be right back.’ He never came back. After a week it became clear to the rest of us that we to do something. Look for food, look for help, something. We voted, the rest of the teachers, and decided that two of us would go the top of the stairs, one to actually leave and see w
