Officers Point of View

It was sad really, to see this man. He was sitting in the middle of the room, laughing his head off, holding a knife. There was nothing else there. I don't know what he saw, but it sure wasn't what we did. As we took him to the mental hospital, he kept laughing and muttering, Free! Free! Who knows what that means.

His neighbor called 911 because she heard a scream and thought something was wrong. She described the scream as piercing, it left her ears ringing. It was full of fear, and pain, and unbearable loneliness.

I have no doubt it came from Collin, as I now know that's what his name was. Apparently he was constantly picked on and abused by his older brother, a kid named Nate Walker, who took the last name of his father, whenever his parents turned their back. They thought Nate was an angel. They blamed everything that went wrong on Collin. It drove him insane.

At one point he said, clear as day, on the drive to the asylum, "I got you Nate, you can't get me now, you can't hurt me anymore. I got you." Then he went back to his laughing fit.

I hope he is free now. Free from the tortures that went through his mind.

The Monsters in the Dark.