Chapter 13: Luke 17:16
The man wearing that green suit called out to the flying machine waving his arms above his head. Once the flying machine landed and stopped blowing the sand in our faces, the man came over to all of us, and beckoned for us to follow him. I got on first, then Jack, then all of his followers. The man spoke to me with his hand on my back as we took off. "Kid, if it's alright if I ask you, what happened you you all?"
I sat with my hands in my face, weeping, thinking of Piggy and Simon.
"Jack, he m-made us do things" One of the littluns whimpered.
"What kind of things?" The man asked.
"He made us stab Simo-"
"You did that on your own!" Jack interrupted the kid.
"Hey, hey, let the kid speak 'kay buddy?" The man spoke back.
"He made us kill a pig!" A choir boy spoke.
"Yes, a pig!" Cried another.
"Cut it's throat!"
"Cut it's throat and stick it's head on a spike!"
"We made the Lord Of The Flies!"
"What? What is this fly lord?" The man asked to the choir boys. Not one of them spoke up.
"It's a pig head up on a stick. We offered it to the beast so it wouldn't come harmin' us" Jack whispered.
"Alright, what beast? And what did the littlun say about Simon or someone? Which one of you boys is Simon?"
"Simon's dead-d" I spoke.
"Jack made us kill him!" Another kid yelled.
"Shut up!" Jack shouted.
"We didn' mean no harm, we thought Simon was the beast!"
"I said SHUT UP!"
"Hey, sit back down now young man and let the kid talk!" The man shouted at Jack, which made Jack shuffle away quickly.
"Roger killed Piggy!" Blurted out the other littlun.
"Yes Roger!"
"Chucked a rock on his head!"
"What? I-no I've done no such thing!" Roger spluttered.
"You did!"
"You are a murderer!"
"Yes, Murderer!"
"Everyone stop it! Why the hell were all of you kids trying to kill each other!?"
"Jack made us do it!" All of the other boys blurted out, crying out rivers of tears.
"I ONLY DID WHAT WAS RIGHT! RALPH CALLED ALL OF YOU COWARDS BUT I MADE YOU INTO WARRIORS!" Jack shouted out in anger. "IT WAS RALPH THAT WAS GOING TO KILL US ALL!" Jack shouts, suddenly lunging at me, grabbing my neck and choking me.
"St-st-stop p-please" I splutter and cough out while the man tries to pull Jack's hands off of me.
The man forces Jack's arms off of me. "Sit down now!" The man shouted at Jack, shoving him into the seat. "Now you listen up, you boys must have been through a lot, but I won't be having any death on this helicopter, HAVE YOU ALL GOT THAT!?" The man shouted, making all of us shut our mouths instantly. "All this talk about murder and beasts, and that stupid paint on your face is just crazy! You're just kids, you're not savages!"