More On Earth’s Future

The dawn was breaking just as the darkness was setting in. Kate couldn't believe what she had seen. She never really asked questions about how Jeff and the others like him took on an earthly form. She had assumed they somehow created the human being form themselves. After what she witnessed last night, her assumption seemed adolescent. The scene kept playing on repeat in her mind. It was late and Kate was out walking through the woods, far past where she knew she should be. Something was pulling her down this path, maybe it was her desire to know more. In the dark forest, Kate could barely see in front of her face. She could hear rapid movements and so she slowed to a still, hoping to catch a glimpse of what Jeff's true form might look like. She sat, crouched behind the trunk of a tree, watching in horror as an alien siphoned the life from a human, one Kate did not know personally, but knew to be human without a doubt. The alien began to split the lifeless body and gut it like a hunter would a deer. After cleaning out the carcass, it wrapped itself in the human skin as if it was covering itself with a blanket. "How can this be?", Kate thought. This was nothing like what Jeff had led her to believe. These things were not at all peaceful, they were wicked. Jeff said they had no plans on killing humans, but Kate had just witnessed it firsthand. She had to make her way back to her room without being noticed by the monsters lurking in the forest. Just as her replay of the evening was coming to an end, Jeff burst through the door, grabbed her and said, "You're not safe here. You have to leave with me, NOW!".