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December 15th.

Holidays declared.

Parents pull pupils away until only Jack and I are left.

He did not talk to me until supper, but then made a fine joke about bread and

butter pudding.

I tried not to play grateful as I laughed.

He talked of plans, how we were going to make this the best of Christmases.

I said little.

I was called to the office after for a phone from home.

Mother wanted to speak before they left for Switzerland.

She said father was tired and would speak to me in the new year.

She sounded not her best.

I increasingly believe that bathing is the only sensible thing to do in this

island.

Until what?

Why should we be the only grown -ups?

I say eat, sleep and bathe.

You don't mean that.

I shouldn't mean that.

I should mean that.

I don't like those clouds.

It rains here, you may have noticed.

I'm not worried about rain.

I'm worried about a storm.

A storm is coming!

Oh, my God!

If I get water on the glass, I've got to get out and clean it.

It was funny.

Only if you're in the mood for funny.

I've got a pain in my brain.

Ralph, don't... Ralph!

There

was

a big storm.

The biggest Simon Camborne had ever known.

He found it quite exciting.

He put on his galoshes and his rain hat and his mask and went out in it.

He was amazed at what he saw.

The whole of his garden was a pond and full of fish.

She was frightened for a moment.

But then fish swam up to him, smiled and said, Isn't it

lovely here?

And Simon felt good.

But then...

Simon Camborne saw a problem.

His garden gate had orange toads sitting all over it.

A problem I'll tell you about tomorrow.

I will, I will, I will. I promise.

Now, has everyone been to the toilet?

Yes. Percival, have you?

I've got my telephone number.

Percival.

Yes,

I went to the toilet.

Thank you.

All right, a bit of quiet now.

Now remember, if you can't sleep, it doesn't mean the boy next to you can't.

try not to disturb them.

Unless you need the loo.

Unless you need the loo.

Why's he got my name?

Who? The boy Piggy's been telling stories about. Oh, I think Piggy's just

working his way through everyone in the register.

A different story for each, you know.

Does he know how it ends?

I don't know. I think he just makes it up as he goes along.

He has an enormous facility.

Did you mean it?

What you said about doing less?

Because we've got the second shelter to secure.

Signal fire to keep going. Jack's camp's not worrying about anything like that.

My father took me into his study one day.

My mother was there.

She was in tears.

She had a bruise just there.

He asked me to tell him who I preferred.

Him or her. I took a moment and I told them I couldn't decide who I preferred.

It's not that hard.

I loved her and I hated him.

But I didn't say that. Instead, I said I couldn't decide.

I was a coward.

My father told me that we're all cowards. At least some of us. He pulled

by the hair and he said, do you hear that? Even your precious boy doesn't

you properly.

and walked away and slammed the door, and she looked at me and then shouted

went after him, begging him for something.

My point, the point is, I'm a coward, and I know that

Jack is one too, and he'd hate me for telling you that, but he is, and you're

not, Ralph. You don't know that. And we all.

All the little ones need you. I need you.

I don't understand you and Jack.

We were alone a lot in the long packs.

We were friendly when no one else was there.

Then the others would come back and he'd drop me like a stone.

I never minded.

He is nicer than people know.

But there is something.

you holding a leaf?

It was Piggy's idea.

We wanted to show you that we come to parley.

What do you wish to parley about?

The beast has been a sighting.

The fire was bright.

We just made it up.

The fire. We laid more sticks on. Even to Piggy's schedule.

For the signal.

Then we saw the eyes. The teeth.

Claws. Halfway between maybe a gorilla and a lion. But like neither of them, we

ran as fast as we could.

Bashed into things. And followed us.

Did it do that?

No. It was a bush.

You definitely saw it.

The beast.

The one pulling our legs.

We saw it.

I believe them.

Yes.

I believe them too.

So the question is whether to retreat or attack.

Where are you retreating to, Captain?

Another island. Have you seen another island tomorrow?

I thought I did once. It was just a fly in my eye.

The beast has never come down here.

If we stay here united... I'd be cramped in.

How should we get our food, Roger? Maybe the pigs would come to us if we asked

nicely.

It's time to hunt.

Hunters will go. Weave weapons.

Those spits only made of wood.

You're frightened, Ross. How sweet.

I just don't see what good attacking a beast with matchsticks will do.

So you agree with your pig?

You say we wait the beast out? Did I say that? Yes. I just think we need to act.

We need to think, Callagher. Onward, Christian soldiers.

We're wasting time.

If we go and Simon comes down... Sucks to the middling. Stop!

Everyone's shining.

We should hold the proper meeting with the conch. Sucks to the conch. We know

who ought to say things. What could Simon ever done talking?

Bill!

It's time some people leave deciding things for the rest of us.

That was cruel.

He's quiet.

He should have come to me.

Besides, I'm bored of worrying about being cruel.

Time to get waxy.

Adieu. You're not thinking this through. Where can it be? Where can it live that

we haven't seen?

Thank you, Ralph.

You've given us our starting point.

The only place we haven't been, do you remember, Morris?

The tail end part of the island, where the rocks are all piled up.

Yes, I know it.

You have realised the worst thing about the beast being on the mountain is if

the signal fires out.

It's our duty to relight the fire.

Or are you done with the rescue idea?

Then we all go.

Then all of us biggins go.

We all have to kill the beast.

Good.

Not with Doug.

You can see why this is the only bit of the island left unexplored.

Aren't you?

I'll go.

Stay here.

Think any of this is about finding the beast.

I'm the headhunter.

I can let you do it on your own.

Well, there's no beast here.

No. But what a wizard place for a fort.

You're welcome to it.

I'm never visiting.

One's here who'd need to leave.

There's no fresh water.

What's that, then?

You could put a coconut shell there, filling all the time.

There are no coconuts, nor is there fruit, nor pigs.

We'd have to travel for food.

We'll go back and climb the mountain.

Morris was wrong.

Better to start where the twins first saw it.

But he didn't try there first.

It was closer to camp.

You want me to reprimand Morris?

I don't think it was Morris' idea.

You play brave, Chief.

You're as scared as they come, really.

Aren't you?

And you're not as hardened as you'd like us to be. think.

I told you that.

December 18th.

We've decided to call the large oak in Pilgrim Court the Tree of Destiny.

Jack has a plan to remap the whole of the grounds.

The next week is to be Genesis.

Our Genesis.

And we will rename and rebirth everything inside the ground, as if it

hatched.

He had us both stand on the hill behind the cathedral and shout, Let there be

light! He looked tremendous, his yellow hair shining like the sun itself.

He said, we are as gods, because if we are not gods, then how else will the

world be made?

Stupid. I don't know where we're going. You're just fat and unfit.

Why are we stopping?

We were here before.

I remember.

If you cut through, you remember the pig run.

Went on for miles.

Find them and we'll find a route all the way to the signal file.

Do we know where we're going?

We're following that!

Looking for the beast.

Looking needs light. I'm hungry.

If we leave now, we can get back to camp before dark.

We'll sleep, and then tomorrow we can climb. It's a good idea.

If you're frightened, of course we can turn back. You have to make everything

into a conversation. Let him go.

If you're Simon's sister, let me go.

Your pig gives you a reason to turn back.

Your decision, King Ralph.

A smaller group will move faster.

The rest shall return to camp.

Good. We need volunteers.

Thank you.

Come on, fatty.

You're not fast enough.

The Lithuans will need you back at camp.

They will.

We played rugger together. You know I can do it.

You promise you won't faint?

Five seems a good number.

Give it back.

Give what back?

I can't even remember what I wrote.

It's the saddest story I ever read.

That's what you wrote.

You're tired.

If you don't want to go on, I'll go up by myself.

I'll be with you, Jet.

Me too.

I'm not tired.

Do they do anything you ask?

Don't yours?

Simon, you're a good dog.

You'd follow Ralph anywhere, wouldn't you?

Go on, then.

The three of you, go.

Fight the beast.

You see?

You don't want to do this without me.

Ralph, you don't need to.

Now you're my dog.

Ralph!

I'll save you.

There's no rock there.

Am I right?

Don't scare people.

Don't scare people. They've a right to be scared.

I've called

this

meeting. There is no meeting. I've got the conch.

You hate the conch.

First, you all need to know, we've seen the beast.

We're only a few feet away.

It's sat up.

Will you be quiet?

This is important, and I have to conch.

We don't know what this beast does.

We don't even know what it is.

It comes from the sea.

Hunting.

Maybe the beast is... Yes, it's hunting. That's what it's doing. The beast is a

hunter, and there's only one thing to do with hunters.

Hunt bats.

Kill will be killed.

Says the man who ran faster than anyone.

So Ralph thinks all my hunters are no good. What? I never said that. You liar.

Ralph thinks all my hunters are cowards.

Runaway cowards. Jack, will you let me speak? Ralph is Piggy. He says things

like Piggy because Piggy tells him what to say.

Would you elect Piggy as your leader?

No. Of course not. All this talk. Talk, talk. Who wanted it?

Who called this meeting? Ralph wouldn't be your chief. Do you hear? You already

have your own camp.

Give me the coin.

December 26th.

Jack remains ill.

I'm reading him Huckleberry Finn.

There was a part where I started doing funny voices, and Jack really laughed,

I kept at it.

They've said to keep him cool, but then he complains about feeling cold, so I

put the blankets on him. I'd rather he be comfortable.

I have taken to leaving my curtains drawn, so that if he needs me, I can be

there for him.

He does not need much.

Just a comforting word if he is frightened.

Last night he accidentally called me mother, and we both laughed like trains.

I lay with him until he slept.

Where would you be if you were not here?

In a cottage on the edge of Dartmoor.

My father worked the boats in Finland.

A cottage?

Sounds nice.

About the size of Simon's gatehouse, I imagine.

We did have a gatehouse.

When it snowed, we had to work darn hard, make sure we wouldn't get snowed

Father and I would be out there till late, clearing the stones in the barn.

But then once we'd done that, we'd have cornflakes with sugar and cream in front

of the fire.

Cornflakes with sugar and cream.

What a gift for that.

I think that's where I'd be.

Where would you, Simon?

I know where I'd be. Behind the counter in the sweet shop, helping your auntie?

while selfing yourself to a few of the filly snakes and strawberry boot laces,

chocolate wheels, sherbet flying saucers.

Go on then, Simon.

I think, all told, if I could be anywhere,

I'd choose her.

I've been happy here.

You'll get back to the, um, the cottage.

You'll get back to where you came from.

Got a ship in your pocket.

Listen to me.

All of you.

You're thieves, vagabonds, pathetic creatures.

Tonight we're having a feast.

We've killed a pig and we've got the fire to cook it with. You can come and

with us.

you're keeping a signal fire going.

The stealing our fire mean that you're taking responsibility for a beat signal.

Now we can't go up the mountain.

Jack!

Jack! Ralph.

Oh, Batty Simon.

Where is everyone?

Perhaps they're lying in the shelter.

No.

The lake, then.

Or the toilet.

Where's Sam and Eric?

Jack's party.

Why did you have to say that?

Why should we know and he not?

Let them go.

I don't care.

What if we were... It's a trap.

It's meat.

You hate him.

Yeah, but I don't hate meat.

We don't have to do anything else except take and eat.

That's how we get stronger.

Bullies only have control if you give them control. I think bad things will

happen. But you're Batty and Ralph's chief.

What do you think, chief?

I think... I think... I think I...

I wish I knew what makes things break up like they do.

They just... They're just... Sorry.

Mind if I ask Nicky?

Who's Nicky?

Me.

I'm Nicky.

That's my name.

I don't know really, Ralph.

I expected Tim.

Jack.

Jack. And is he everything?

Is he all of it? No.

Look, we just gotta go on, Ralph.

That's all.

That's what grown -ups do.

Deleted.

Father, do not be frightened of the beast.

January 4th.

Lent term begins tomorrow, so slowly children will return to where they

be.

Jack was kind at breakfast, but by lunch he was readying himself for the arrival

of the others.

I asked him to meet me at the Tree of Destiny, and he said he did not know

tree I talked of.

I tried to show little response.

Morris was the first of his platoon to appear.

He had cake from his cook, which the two shared whilst talking loudly of the

adventures of Morris's Christmas.

I sat close enough to listen, and then returned to the dorm alone.