Out of Control

Chapter 2: Ralph's Perspective
Dear Journal,

So I think the island is ok. I think things are starting to go bad. Today we built a fire and killed a kid. We acted irrationally by letting the littluns and Jack run off like bandits to start a fire that was not contained nor decided. A group of kids built it because they thought it was good idea so they went ahead and took the liberty and built it themselves. They didn't realize they didn't have the tools to build a fire nor did they have the brain capacities to contain it. After the fire got out of control smoke caught him in the flames, smoking him out, trapping him and leaving him vulnerable and
The littluns keep talking this “beastie.” I think its a figment of their imagination or distorted image of a human being wandering about in the dark, completely forgetting the fact that we are on an island, they are just frightened kids.
My father is going to rescue us because the queen has a picture in her room of all the islands in the world. After he is done fighting the war he will be able to take his ship over here and rescue us eventually. I hope. At this point I don't even know if I want to be rescued. I think that there will be a ship coming soon.