Part IV

(NB.. For those who have been reading the prologues too will be wondering what creature i have been hinting at is at work in the background. This piece is a little hint)

IV

The last one was found in 1972

The papers stated

The man in black

Found buried deep

Miles beneath the surface

In a old archive

Beneath the central library,

Discovered like a babe in arms

During the middle of the night

After his dog started barking

And afterwards wouldn’t go

In the back garden

For weeks afterwards 

Their eyes dead white

With a spear through the side

Indistinguablishable from that of a rat

Except from the nose and ears

Which made it look close

Almost too close to be human

Fluorescence in the rain

Over his back gate

With nothing but howling

Down the alleyway

Curved over

The nearby railway bridge

To greet him

Leading back

To the nearby boarded up

Underground bunkers.