I've stopped sending the transcriptions to the director. This is far too important to waste on this miserable excuse of an organization. I'm keeping the original journal. This could be the key to saving our world.

Consider this my official resignation.

Agent Leo Church

July 29

The facility is gone. Everything is gone. I'm sitting on a rock watching the world disappear.

I guess I ended up taking the third option after all.

I wonder what disappearing will feel like. To have never existed.

There's nothing I can do any more. I tried. I tried to save them. 

“We will never fully understand them. Never fully control it.”

July 28

They're gone.

I woke up this morning and the entire camp was gone. Every single agent.

I'm alone.

July 27 - Part 2

Dad disappeared when I was too young to even remember him. I was always the unwanted kid whose dad had walked out. Mom did her best, but everyone laughs at the boy playing catch with his mom. I just wanted a normal family.

I started looking for him in high school. Mom gave me a name and I searched every website I could find. I never found any trace of him. Once Mom die was gone I started looking even harder. I had great relatives, they took good care of me, but I never had the family I wanted.

Mr. Smith may have been assigned to evaluate my progress in the facility but

He was the closest thing I ever had to a father.

July 27

I can't stop it.

If I get rid of the last three Fears, the Ravager will return.

If I don't get rid of the last of the Fears, our entire universe will cease to be.

I miss Mr. Smith.

July 24

I keep trying to tell myself this is a trick of the Stranger. It's showing me these images to break my spirit.

But today as I was walking around the camp seeing what progress we're making on finding the Birds and the Shifter without the computer I realized something. Mr. Smith is gone.

I asked someone where he was and they had no idea what I was talking about. No one did. Three other agents are missing as well.

It's getting worse.

July 23 - Part 2

I don't know what I'm doing anymore.

I thought I was working for a good cause. I thought I was making the world better. But in another week there might not even been a world left.

I'm letting everybody down and they don't even know it.

July 23

The Stranger came to me again. He showed me the path of nothingness.

I'm running out of time.

July 22

We sent an agent into the facility yesterday. He was supposed to check the place out and bring out any information he could. We hoped the people in the facility would ignore one rogue agent since they didn't do anything to stop the full-on attack.

We were so wrong.

Jenna came to us this morning. She stopped at the edge of our camp and opened a bag she had brought with her. Two heads fell out.

The agent's name was Sean. I don't know who the child was.

Jenna went berserk when the suits tried to restrain her. Three people have been injured and she returned to the facility.

I'm gonna go cry some more.

July 20

I woke up last night and The Stranger was in my tent. It seemed to small for the space and yet he fit. 

He did not speak, but I could feel his words in my head. 

We can stop The Ravager from returning. We can take the third option. I don’t need to erase these people. I don’t need to find away to break The Ravager’s control.

I taunted him. He knew I was winning. The only ones left are him, The Birds and The Shifter. Soon they would all be gone. The world would be free of the Fears.

He showed me the world through his eyes. Empty fields where houses had once stood, blank spaces that were once forests, entire cities wiped clean. It’s a race against time.

No, it’s a lost cause.

No. I will never believe that. 

I tried to erase The Stranger but it flickered away before I could even try. 

I will not take the third option.

July 19 - Part 2

It was still standing there, on the edge of the camp, staring with its eyeless face. 

I yelled at it. Screamed. Demanded it answer me. The suits look at me like I was insane but I knew, I knew it could talk. Communicate. Something.

It just stood and stared.

July 19

We’ve got nothing. No clue. No idea of where to start. I’m the only one who remembers The Ravager and I didn’t know that much to begin with.

I wish The Water were still around.

Goddamnit, no. No. I will not regret. They are all monsters and all must be erased. There are others I can get information from.

I’m going to talk to The Stranger.

July 18

The assault failed. 

No, didn’t fail. 

I called it off. 

We had a few snipers taking out people through the windows. They hadn’t posted guards. I thought they weren’t expecting an attack. 

The Ravager is a sick creature. If what The Water said is true, the people in there are all following pre-programmed orders whispered to them by the creature. If that’s true, it can’t be allowed to come back.

When the attack started, a line of people came out and formed rows in front of the door. At first the suits kept on going, then we realized they weren’t fighting back. It knew exactly who to send at us.

It was a line of suits. Each one holding the hand of small child. How cliche can you get? But it worked. They’re counting on me to save them, I can’t command them to kill children. I couldn’t even erase them. 

We need to find a way to break The Ravager’s control. 

Jenna was with them. She survived The City with me, I won’t forsake her now.

July 17

We’re storming the facility. 

I haven’t told the suits what The Water told me. I’m not even sure I fully believe it. You can’t call a Fear back from the other world. What would be the point in sending them away if they could come back?

We’ll take out the intruders before they can even try.

July 14

The Stranger has taken to standing on the edge of our camp. When the suits get bored they shoot at it, but it never even moves. It doesn’t talk, doesn’t plead, doesn’t threaten. It knows something it isn’t letting me in on. 

That’s not very nice.

Shouldn’t keep secrets.

July 12

One of the suits, Sarah, came and spoke to me today. I looked into her eyes and The Water looked into me.

We went into some blue world where everything was quiet and soft. I thought the realms were messed up when I erased The City?

It is not a realm. It is more. It is The Water and it is Legion.

“I am one of Them and you have no reason to trust me, but you must listen. You have sent The Ravager from this world but his whisperings remain. They rest in the subconscious of all those he has touched, waiting to be triggered. Even though he is gone, he has taken your facility. He will wait until you have destroyed us all, then his controlled will summon him back to this world and he will rule it all.”

I laughed at her. They couldn’t summon it back. How would they even know how? Besides, all we had to do was take out its minions and that would be that.

“Could you do that? Kill innocent humans? Kill the people you mean to protect from us? They have lives. Families. This behavior is an unconscious impulse they are forced to obey. Could you kill them for that?”

“I wouldn’t kill them. I’d erase them. No one would miss them. It would be like they’d never existed.”

“In erasing them, they would never have existed. Their children would never have been born. Their grandchild would cease to be. Would you destroy the children for the faults of their ancestors?”

I stared at her. The endless being that spoke through Sarah’s mouth. Could I erase these people to keep The Ravager from returning? Could I stop The Ravager again should it return?

“There is a third option.”

“I won’t join you.”

“That was never an option. Just an empty promise to weaken your guard.”

I held out my hand. It hesitated. Backed away.

"The third option–"

I took a step forward. I was on the hill, talking to Sarah’s empty body. Some suits took her away to be buried.

I will never take the third option.

July 11

Apparently the invaders are acting in accordance with those affected by The Ravager's whisperings. Mr. Smith calls them possessed. He remembers the effects, but not the cause.

We're trying to do some research, but most of the resources are stuck in the facility and The Ravager's memory only exists in my head. 

Needless to say, we're not making much progress.

July 10

A gang? Throng? Army? 

A large group of people swarmed the facility two nights ago. They were armed with knives and axes and saws and branches and guns and rakes and all sorts of garbage. It was like they’d just grabbed whatever was closest when they left the house. 

The suits on guard were slaughtered. Dozens were dead before the alarm was even sounded. A couple of the suits had grabbed their guns and joined the invaders. We evacuated. They did not pursue. 

They’ve taken over the facility.