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The grey things kept coming at his head...

Dwayne felt sure that if he blinked they would leave in a second, just as they seemed to come out of nowhere the second he blinked. He blinked... Nope, it didn’t work- the grey things were still hovering. Dwayne didn’t even have a name for them.

Dwayne, the highest ranking squad leader in Tasmania knew every single creature and plant in the “Tasmanian Creature and Plant Manual”. Of course, it didn’t help much that Dwayne had left his manual at home... or that it was eleven at night... or that Dwayne was far from Tasmania and far, far away from home. He should never have come with his family to this strange island, even if it was for a vacation. Now Dwayne had strange, luminous, semi-opaque grey things with no name hovering around his head and no way of being able to out run the flamin’ things. If only he had listened to the old man and not been so damned curious...

“What was it the old man had said?” Duane tried to remember as he ducked for cover. “Something about not being ignorant of the spiritual realm... something about the old boat shed being haunted!” Duane shook his head; he didn’t believe in ghosts. He picked up a stick and waved it in the air. He picked up rocks to throw at the grey things but just like at school playing cricket he would miss with every throw. The grey things swooped towards his stick. “I may not believe in ghosts, but right now they seem to believe in me!” Duane hit one with his stick and it fell to the ground; that would show the old man. Duane ran over to pick it up, but to his horror he found that the grey thing had become little more than a fine grey dusty substance and if there was one thing that Dwayne had learned from the battery acid incident and that was never to pick up anything with your bare hands unless you are 100% sure you know what it is. He looked around. The grey things had gone. Dwayne ran back to where he came from, back to tell his parents before the old man did.

As Dwayne sprinted he couldn’t help but to think back over what had already been a crazy holiday. How he came to be on this strange island was beyond him... but of course Dwayne knew very well, and he knew that it was his fault. But could he have avoided what had happened over the last few days? Dwayne began to reflect...

(**TAG TO JAKE**)