During these pages of "Cell" the book takes a turn that is a bit unexpected. After Clay and Tom blow the crazies to bits they feel the urge that they need to leave. Well they decide that leaving is probable the smartest thing to do so and they try and get Jordan and the headmaster to come with them. The only problem is Jordan wont leave with out the headmaster and the headmaster knows it. As everyone is going to bed the headmaster talks to Clay and tell him that he is going to take his life so that Jordan will go with Clay and his group. Clay tries to talk him out of it but he has no luck changing his mind. That day while the whole group is sleeping Clay wakes up from a horrible night mare and tries to sketch it down as soon as he can. The only thing that Clay can get drawn down on the paper is the image of a ragged man with missing teeth and a Harvard shirt on. As he finishes he talks to Tom who also has had the same night mare as Clay. They quickly go check on Alice and Jordan and they discover that Jordan has had the same night mare and he is now terrified. As they are talking about the dream the doors on the building begin to shake violently. The group knows exactly who it is and quickly scatter to get the guns. As they become more aware of their surroundings they notice that the building has been encircled by crazies. Suddenly the door stops shaking and there is silence. Clay has a feeling that he knows who exactly is outside that door and that he needs to open it. When he opens the door Clay had been right it was the ragged man from their night mare standing outside the door with hundreds of crazies standing behind him. At the door step there was the melted pieces of the stereos that had been blown up during the explosion. The ragged man suggests that they can leave with out any harm. While he does this Clay can hear screams and the sound of gun shots in the background. It was the sound of crazies killing some travelers they were able to grab. He didn't know why the ragged man was letting them go and not the people he had heard screaming, but he forgot about it and went to get the headmaster. When he got there he found him dead sitting at his desk with his eye missing and a pen in his brain. The ragged man was able to make the headmaster write the word insane in 14 languages on his desk and then kill himself all from a dream. And that is where I stopped.
The book as you continue to read becomes more and more addicting to me. This part of the book to me was the easiest to read because you didn't want to put it down. As you read these you are hit with several huge surprises that you aren't prepared for. You learn that the some of the crazies have become almost telepathic. That part for me was one of the down sides of these pages. It was a down side because of how unrealistic it is. Having the entire world become crazy zombies from a cell phone signal, but then making them become more and more intelligent to the part where they are mind reading dream controlling zombies is a little far for me. Other than that a great part of the book
Let's try to be a little more consistent with our updating and reading. The posts don't need to be long--just check in here and there so we can see what you're up to. Pop fiction requires four logs a week, remember. Over the last two weeks here, I only see three.
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