Every so often there are low, rumbling thuds outside, muttering like thunder. I’m keeping away from the windows. I thought about taking the tube, but when the web was still up it said that no lines were running. There are all those urban legends about stations built through the old plague pits. So many tunnels must pass under churches and graveyards.
I can reach my bike without being seen from the street. Then I’ll go as fast as I can. Chris is coming with me, I hope he can keep up.
It’s worse now that there are no sirens. I thought I heard gunfire earlier, and screaming. Some colleagues went out, and didn’t come back.
There’s nothing at all now.
I made it out the office, and down to Victoria through Fitzrovia and then Hyde Park. Fuckin’ wireless was down in the station and people were fleeing onto whatever trains they could find. I jacked into a Cat5 and here I am, awaiting the fast train to Brighton. Strange as it is, whatever has happened doesn’t seem to have changed the Southern Railways staff and operating procedure much.
>> whatever has happened doesn’t seem to have changed the Southern Railways staff and operating procedure much.
‘That is not dead which can eternal lie
And with strange aeons even death may die’
Lovecraft spoke truth…