13 Moons - #1
January 25, 2005

Mandhradevi, India. My kind aren't common here, but I'm out of time and after the Ukraine, I know I don't want to be on an airplane or train when the moon's full.

Some kind of temple celebration in the area, it should be noisy and mask the noises I make tonight. The chains should be set up as I requested. The owner of the warehouse thinks I'm crazy - possibly thinks I'm making pornography, rape films are supposed to be popular here. That's fine - he'll see that there's no one in the building with me, and even if he wants to call the police, their hands will be full tonight. Tomorrow, I'll hike out and be long gone.

January 26, 2005

oh god oh god must get out of here get cleaned up the chains broke

Later

The owner of the warehouse and two other men came in during the night - one of them climbed in a ventilation window and used a bolt-cutter on the chains I'd put on the door. I don't know if they were going to rob me or just wanted to know what I was doing in there, but they got into the office and they must have come too close to the wolf they found. Once it tasted blood, it couldn't be stopped - the chains didn't hold and none of them survived. I broke the window getting out and from the blood there was on my body when I woke up, I knew the wolf was sated. I vomited then, chunks of flesh pouring out of me onto the floor. Outside, I could hear screams and the wailing of ambulances. I cleaned my face and hands, threw on my clothes and ran, stopping only to dump some paint thinner over the bodies and light a match, hoping it would at least delay pursuit.

I found a stream outside of town that was relatively isolated, and cleaned myself off.

The commotion in town is because of a stampede last night - someone (or something) got a crowd panicked and hundreds of people died. I hope it masks the ones I killed.

I can still taste the blood.

I'll know better next time, and I'll get where I need to be in plenty of time to get everything set up right.