By Ethan Pearson & Dylan Fu, Class of 2024

“Hey! Watch where you’re going!”

“Get up! No time to explain, we have run!”

“What do you mean? Nothing has happened except you running down this hill and barreling into me.”

“I said there’s no time to explain! Hurry up!”

“I’m not going anywhere until you have given me reason to!”

“This is a matter of life and death alright, stay here you die, come with me, you live? Got it? Ok, come on now!”

“All right then, what’s your name anyway?”

“Call me Mr Brown, I’m a scientist and I have a laboratory close to here. Follow me there!”

“Let’s go there then.”

“And when we get there can you tell me about this mysterious thing that was chasing you?” 

“I specialize in that “mysterious thing” that is living around us which is why you ran into me.” 

“Never mind your studies for now, how far away is your lab?” 

“Only 5 minutes, and tell me your name.”

“Alfred, just call me Alfred.”

“Okay Alfred, I don’t want it to keep chasing me. So I’ve developed a trap in my lab right over this hill.”

“I can see it! Why is it out here in the middle of nowhere?”

“I moved my lab here so I could be closer to this creature.”

“Let’s get there as soon as possible, please.”

“Alright, we’re here!”

“What a nice place!”

“The designs, they are in the basement, follow me.”

“How much farther down is it? I’m about to collapse!”

“Not much farther, here it is.”

“There’s only a table down here? Where’s that trap you were talking about?”

“Excuse me for a second, go ahead, have a look at what’s on the table.”

“But there’s only a knife on it sir, sir? Sir, where are you?! HELLO!”

The door locked behind Alfred…