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20th April

was investigating something that was killing animials (small octopi with transliucent heads and tenticles no more than 15cms long, mostly) by the ford (there were said animals a little way up and down the road). something seemed to be taking control of them and making them walk out of the water. I was the one to suggest thatt he dead in the water had originally crawled out. Then the teacher I was working with took some samples home to dissect and became very ill and died suddenly while sitting on our toilet. For some reason we could see that her liver had turned black and tarry.

Then the containment people arrived in a big yellow truck and went down to set things up; I went to watch at a safe distance (for some reason they were by the station not the ford). When I came back there had been some limited rioting goign on (our house overlookeda little 'square' (actually a triangle) of concrete area with shops on oen side and benches and stuff). I went back in the house but there were squid in a metal tray where we'd been collecting/dissecting them. I didn't feel I could tell my parents what was wrong so I just packed a bag and fled. At first I thought of just going next door but then I decided that was silly and I'dd go to Olive's, forgetting that the road to there is the one past the ford, station etc. remembered when I saw a police-like car sitting there to turn people round.

came back and was rouunded up by parents; apparently there was a curfew at 6:30pm. went into the house and closed all the windows etc, and the neighbours (whose house was attached to ours by just one room like our garages, but there was an internal door) came round and discussed how good it was that we could get together like this.

I looked out of the window and on the 'square' people were deliberately disobeying and protesting the curfew annd someone with plates of transparent plastic on their hands with big fuzzy felt do ts on them (about 5-10cm diameter) arrived and got the crowd's attention, He hypnotised them (except one that knew to close their eyes) and sent them all home. When I told my mother how he'd done it she was very scared.

The neighbours complimented us on our kitchenware (we had a huge corner hob and a dosen shiny red saucepans and so forth) and asked us if we ever used a garden. we said yes, to sit out in, and they offered us theirs for when they went on holiday. They also made some jokes when I insisted the window that was still open had to be closed, taht I didn't get, about it not beign airboarne you had to touch something, and pointing out doorhandles and stuf. I was really scared because the squid were still there and the dead teacher was still in the loo as far as I knew. And then SARS (which was the name of the containment people) delivered two big cardboard packages (about 3/4-1m by 2m by 30-50cm) to my dad, witha delivery note apologinsing that they were only double-wrappped and not properly sealed. I freaked out and ran away. There were 'no entry zone 'sings on the speed limit sign and the village sign.

Then we had a bunch of scenes with homeless people on a bus. It was a triple-decker from Australia, which claimed to be open-top but had a perfectly normal-seeming top on it (presumably it could be removed). This was where the homeless people had been put during the curfew. I've forgotten what happened in it now, though.

We were just about to get back to the main story when I woke up.

27th April

We started off in 'school'; I'd forgotten that the time had changed and went to my locker at 5 instead of 4, it was about to be locked up but I got there anyway. There were echoes of Keevan because I'd been in some meethingy thing. And then I was in a (shopping centre?) and the firebell went off, except before tha I'd met Neena who had a baby who (younger!cousinAlex?) was looking after but she was paranoid about saying anything that could be considered 'bad words' around it, and considered 'pregnant' to be a bad word. And Olive was there, and she asked me if a (word-I-can't-remember) pregnancy should be aborted, and my initial reaction was 'No!' but then when she'd gone to ask more people I wondered if it was like an ectopic one where there wasn't a baby in the first place. There was something about choosing costume from the free set and someone having to pay for osmething getting food on it and I'd just got food on something but it didn't matter because it wsn't the paid rack. shades of LARPcostume.

when the alarm rang I scooped up something but it was like halfa blanket not my bag, andn then Olive caught up with me and yelled at me to run, so I did, then something blew up in front of us so we ran the other way, out through thte 'tavern' and down the side of this electronics company with 3 blueish letters as the logo (and the AT&T symbol behind them). We were chased by what looked like the fire but they were just firey letters (there were words of up to four letters but I can't remember what they were now) and we dodged between them. Then we came to the end of the path, but I vaulted over the edge and onto the busy road bridge (two carriageways of cars witha gap inbetween and crash barriers). I crossed the road and started down the steps, but after a while the steps gave out to monkey bars, so I climbed a tree down instead.

When I got to the bottom of the tree I could see two trails coming down from either road, which were very steep. The one from the other road had a goth girl sitting there at the top before it got steep, afraid to come down. When she saw me she got more courage and came down, but I said I didn't think we could get up again. Then someone who was a surveyor came down the other one carefully and we followed him through the jungle on up and out, and I found my way back to the tavern, where my mother and Neena were, and there were five or six plates with toast with various thingson it - butter and brown sugar, garlic butter with green herby bits, and a few other things. I went for the brown sugar one first but apparently they'd claimed that one so I ate half a slice (except it was afull slice, just small-squished) of the garlic butter one instead (they had only not claimed that bit), it was very nice, and then I woke up with a taste like garlic in my mouth.