Days and nights will turn to years
Burning centuries to dust.
Only soil cropped with tears
Will remind us of the past.
- Jack, what are you doing at the window? Have you been eavesdropping on the neighbors arguing again?
- No, come here...
- I'm not interested in that kind of stuff. Besides you can find a ton of it on the int...
- No, it's different. Come and listen.
- Listen to what? I don't hear anyth...
- The dog. The dog's barking...
- Soo... what?
- There "Wuf. Wuf-wa. Wa-a. A-wa. Wuf. Wuf-wa"... and then again - the same pattern.
- Yeeah... Ok. So what?
- Isn't it weird?
- Maybe it's just how dogs are barking. Aren't they repeat themselves sometimes. It's like a language for them or something, right? So the dog might just be very persistant at trying to convey it's thoughts...
- It's been doing it for a half an hour straight. Without breaking the pattern even once. Dogs don't do that.
- Yeah... Ok. You've been listening to a dog's barking for a half an hour.
- ...
- Well, maybe it's a recording then. Someone's been playing it on a loop.
- For what reason?
- I don't know. Maybe it's someones science project. They study how dogs react to other's dogs barking. Or just trying to bring their neighbors to insanity.
- Yeah. I think it would make sense.
- See.
- But from which house do you think it comes from?
- Oh, Jack. Come on, close the window. Let's go to sleep.
Of the days that had begone
Hiding terror in the mist.
Of the nights that yet to come.
Of the one, who fights the beast.
- Hi, hun...
- Hi! You've been late. Did you have some extra meeting at the job?
- No. I've been looking for that dog, and...
- Oh no. Jaaack...
- It wasn't a recording!
- I don't care.
- C'mon, I can see you're intrigued...
- Yeah, alright. What was it then?
- So, after the work I went to a pet-shop and bought a dog whistle. You know, the one only dogs can hear.
- Yes, I know what are you talking about.
- So, then I spent time driving along the streets and whistling all around. Roughly at that region where the dog barking comes from.
- Did someone call the cops on you?
- ...
- Alright, I'm sorry. Continue.
- So the idea was that some dogs nearby would react to it, and if I hear the pattern, I would know - it's the dog, and it's real.
- And did you hear it?
- Yup.
- Alright then... Maybe it's just someone had trained the dog to bark this way. For whatever reason...
- Maybe. But it would be only a part of the mystery... I kept whistling and directing myself toward the source of barking, and eventually I've appeared somewhere on the outskirts of the city. The "old town". And then I saw that old wooden shack surrounded by the fence - all neglected and old. And the dog was there. It just was sitting on one place doing nothing.
- Tell me you didn't bother any people living in there.
- No. There was no one living in there.
- How do you know? And if so - what about the dog? Someone would have to be looking after it, feeding and stuff.
- That's exactly what I have asked the people around. You know, the neighbors.
- So you ended up bothering people after all...
- I pretended to be interested in buying the property. They said no one's being living in that shack for decades, nobody seen entering, nobody leaving. And the dog - it's been there for all the time but nobody admitted feeding it or seeing anyone around it.
- I'm sure, there's an explanation...
- And the shack! It has no windows.
- How's that?
- No windows at all! Only the entrance door... With symbols on it! And...
- You're making it all up. No, Jack, stop! Don... don't show me your notebook.
- Look! Here's: six symbols, and these two are the same as these ones.
- So?
- Now. Do you remember the barking? "Wuf. Wuf-wa. Wa-a. A-wa. Wuf. Wuf-wa" It's the same pattern! See? The symbols are repeated the same way the sounds are.
- Yeah. Kind of... So what did you do next?
- I went home.
- Thanks God! By the way, supper is...
- So?..
- So what?
- What do you think of it all?
- Jack, I think it's just you doing your regular thing.
- Which is...
- Becoming overly obsessed over some weird stuff like this. I'm sure half of it is in fact not like you're describing. Maybe it's not a living house at all, some barn or something else, and thus it has no windows. Maybe someone's feeding the dog, but noone cares enough to notice...
- And what about the symbols and the pattern? Do you think I'm making it all up? I mean you heard it yourself.
- I think the supper is getting cold, Jack.
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