No light, only darkness
ALL THE TOP GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS HAVE DECIDED TO GO UNDERGROUND TO DISCUSS THE INSECURITY THAT IS GETTING MORE PREVALENT THROUGHOUT DEXTER ISLANDS, Barry read on the front page of the newspaper. He shook his head sadly and dropped the newspaper. Just beneath the headline, there was a picture of the president and the governors of the different states, including Gollogher’s governor looking all original and sober about the problem of the nation.
Most of the other inmates had a copy of the newspaper too. ‘You can’t tell the minds of people’, Dale said, shaking his head as he read the headline.
‘There are somethings you only get to find out when you get in here. There are secrets that only people who’re here can get to know, the most guarded secrets of Dexter Island is here lying with us. All our leaders who appear all empathic with us and appear to want the best of us are the leaders of the terrorists. It’s only when we get here that we see everyone who have giving those heroic speeches on our TVs, telling us that the smoke would soon clear and everything was going to be okay come here and pull off their sheep clothing. They come here to exercise their impious true selves and stroke their egos, acting as dignitaries and watch us die’, Peter poured out.
‘Leader of terrorists?’, Pierson asked.
‘In here, we get to find out that Boorbunk isn’t really a prison and at large, Dexter isn’t really a nation anymore’, Peter said and everywhere fell silent. ‘We all here aren’t really criminals. You aren’t criminals, you aren’t criminals, none of us are. We had been replaced with the real terrorists. It’s the system and this place is only like a dungeon for citizens to die. There is no hope for this country. The governors, president that we have now are members of the Order of The Quppis!’, Peter said.
Dale shook his head in total disagreement with his last statement.
‘I have been here for two and a half years, all the people who I met here are no longer alive, I have survived more Death Toasts than any of you and my eyes have been revealed to more things than the rest of you. The government of this regime, the entire people that makes it up are the leaders and overseers of the group that had been wasting lives for many years’
‘So what’s the way out?’, Dale asked not wanting to believe that dismaying story.
‘There’s no way out, just as there is no way out for us here in Boorbunk. They rule over us and worse is yet to come for this country, I’m afraid. We never get to know these hidden secrets until you’re locked in here. It’s because they know that there is nothing we can do about it. The secrets either gets burst out of our bellies with tens of shells or we, most unlikely, make it out of here and start a new life, throwing Dexter and their problems in the bin’, Peter said and wiped his hand over his face and sighed coldly. ‘I usually don’t say all these things but it’s just that I keep foolishly wishing that something could be done, someone should arise but in this showdown between good and evil, the enemy is winning slowly and silently. It’s hard to know who is good now’, he stopped again and watched the faces of everyone carefully watching him, listening in awe or better still, fright.
‘You know, when I was working as a teaching Biology. When I was out of here, we had an encounter with the terrorists. They were about a thousand in number, they had rushed on the large school. They were all wearing black uniforms and some of them were wearing balaclavas, the same masks that The Death Toast shooters wear. They all had powerful ammunitions with them, some of them held it and some of them had the guns slung on their arms. The school contained most of the children in Tifftam that had sought to go to school, about a three hundred thousand of them had been moved out of the class and then all the staff had been called out too. We all knelt out with our hands over our heads, staring down. One of them who was unmasked, whom I would still recognise if I see had talked to all of us, I wasn’t sure I heard of any the things he said but at least I saw the men work what he said out’. ‘The rest of them walked up to the heads of the students and it was then I found out their agenda, to kill half of the students and kill all the staff’. ‘So randomly, they picked two students told one to run away and shot the other numerous times in his head’
‘It is quite uncomfortable for me to think about. I heard cries of the other students, many of the kids started weeing on themselves. Some of them had tried to escape but they were caught and those ones who had tried to escape were led to one side for capital punishment. I, who had my eyes shut, opened them one time to see the bodies of thousands of children laying dead over the school’s assembly ground that we were all on. I remained silent and really calm as if something had told me I wasn’t going to die that day’
‘After the mass butchery of all the unlucky children, it was the time for the staffs of which I was one of them. They shot each person numerous times, turn by turn. and then when it was two people left before it was my turn. I did what my mind told me to do. I fell limp and acted dead but that didn’t mean I wouldn’t still get shot. I was shot twice in the arm but I dared not give a sound, I remained like that for as long as they were there’.
‘Did they leave you all there?’, one of the inmates asked.
‘Of course not, they didn’t. They weren’t done with their plan. They bound all the dead students and staff up in ropes, a process that took hours’
‘What about the police?’
‘The police? The police ran for their own lives. No one could stand a set of one thousand members of the Order of The Quppis. Anyone who tried to stand in their way wouldn’t just lose his life, he would lose his life with depths of pain that he didn’t imagine could be felt’. ‘We were taken to one empty classroom and then one of the chairs were set up. It was time for the execution of the capital punishment for those students who had tried to escape’. ‘I kept my eyes a little open to watch what they were doing. They had tied the student to the chair and then pushed in large needled syringes in his arms which were in turn connected to pipes. The screams that emanated from the room remains in my head right now. The boy’s blood was completely drained in front of the rest of the students and disposed off in a large tank. He was exsanguinated. I kept my eyes closed as the process was repeated for the rest of them. That day, I witnessed the height of brutality and bloodshed that this people can perform. There is nothing stopping them, they are backed by every powerful figure in this nation. I don’t know what they want from us but the total destruction of Dexter is the best guess’