The Night of the Catastrophe

The attack lasted just one hour and fifteen minutes before the effect that had sent the animals rushing into their confrontation with humankind slowly released its hold on their small, corrupted minds. For the most part, they were again as God or creation had made them, but far from their homes, scattered disoriented. During those hours, hundreds of animals were killed as the people of Belteridge and Clover Pocket reacted in frantic self-defense. And I have to say, it's those creatures I think about now, all these years after, those creatures I really mourn for, and them alone. Like the phantoms of Region 10, he was never trapped or found in the mountains of Grand County.