Look for a safe place

You decide that your best option in the short term would be to find somewhere you can be relatively safe from any more strange monsters, should they appear. You consider the possibilities. You suspect you might be safer with others; several of your friends should be around college, and if you find them you could work together to decide the best course of action, and look out for each other. You glance around you at the few remaining students in the chemistry block; most appear to have left already, **** to get away from the demonic beast. Of those that remain, there are none you know particularly well.

You stand up, steeling yourself to try and keep your voice sounding confident, “I’m going to look for more people, and try and find somewhere more secure than this. Does anyone want to come with me?”

“You’re going out there?” asks a guy you don’t know, “Are you mad?”

“Yeah,” agrees a blonde girl clutching his arm, “I’m waiting here, there could be anything out there! Anyway, someone must be coming to help us – you know, the police or the army or someone.”

The others nod, murmuring agreement. With a sinking feeling, you realise you are going to have to search for your friends alone. You make one more effort.

“What makes you think we’re the only place this has happened? None of us know how or why that thing appeared, but for all we know, the whole country could be in chaos - the whole world, even.”

You shudder at your own suggestion, and the others pale a little.

“I’m... I’m still staying here,” says the girl again, less sure of herself now, “I’m just not risking it.”

“Okay then, I’m going alone,” you say, keeping your voice as level as possible, “I wish you all good luck.”

And with that, you pick up your college bag and head out of the door.