Saturday November 8 at 10:20 pm EST
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the_siobhanThe walk in the dark may not have been the smartest idea I've ever had.
It started off being really nice. It's still windy on the beach but not as cold as it was the afternoon. The moon is hidden behind the clouds but still casts enough ambient light that we could see where we were going. The silhouettes of the trees above us, adn the blinking lights of lighthouses in teh distance looked really cool and atmospheric.
Eventually Axel got cold and we decided to start heading back. We've all been drinking tonight - not just me - and Sabz declared at that point that she had to pee. So she nipped into the bush while we waited for her.
She wasn't gone for more than a minute when we heard her scream. And not a, "Oops, I slipped and landed butt-first in my own pee" squeal, but a full-throated shriek of terror. My first thought was that she had run into a bear or something and we ran into the bushes yelling at the top of lungs in the hopes of chasing off whatever was scaring her. But she was nowhere to be found. We searched hte same stretch of forest over and over again and just could not find her.
We were frantic. We called her phone half a dozen times but it kept going straight to voicemail. Axel in particular was really starting to panic and I finally told him to head back to the cottage. There was a slight chance she had somehow gotten past us and headed back there alone, and if we had to call 911 that was the best place for them to meet up with us. Darrell & I continued searching and calling until I got a text from Axel, he was back at the cottage adn Sabz was there with him. We headed back.
It started off being really nice. It's still windy on the beach but not as cold as it was the afternoon. The moon is hidden behind the clouds but still casts enough ambient light that we could see where we were going. The silhouettes of the trees above us, adn the blinking lights of lighthouses in teh distance looked really cool and atmospheric.
Eventually Axel got cold and we decided to start heading back. We've all been drinking tonight - not just me - and Sabz declared at that point that she had to pee. So she nipped into the bush while we waited for her.
She wasn't gone for more than a minute when we heard her scream. And not a, "Oops, I slipped and landed butt-first in my own pee" squeal, but a full-throated shriek of terror. My first thought was that she had run into a bear or something and we ran into the bushes yelling at the top of lungs in the hopes of chasing off whatever was scaring her. But she was nowhere to be found. We searched hte same stretch of forest over and over again and just could not find her.
We were frantic. We called her phone half a dozen times but it kept going straight to voicemail. Axel in particular was really starting to panic and I finally told him to head back to the cottage. There was a slight chance she had somehow gotten past us and headed back there alone, and if we had to call 911 that was the best place for them to meet up with us. Darrell & I continued searching and calling until I got a text from Axel, he was back at the cottage adn Sabz was there with him. We headed back.