LOTF Ch. 5 Beast from Water viewpoint: Piggy

The island is in ChAoS!

I'm scared! Everyone is going crazy on this island. It's ludicrous how everybody is losing their mind. Well, everybody except me, Ralph and Simon. When Ralph called the meeting, everyone was serious, at first. When I look back at it now, I look back it jeeringly, everything seemed perfect then compared to now. He explained how we needed to enforce the rules we had made earlier. Like going to the bathroom in the rocks, putting the water in coconut shells, and keeping the signal fire going and only cooking up there. Everyone was pretty irritated at all the rules he was reminding them of. But it was definitely necessary. Then another subject was brought up, the beastie. The terrifying shadow of evil that haunts the little ones in their sleep, that make all us older ones feel uncomfortable, and that creates chaos on our island. All sorts of solutions to this problem were brought up. Well I wouldn't exactly say solutions, more like explanations. It was a tiger, a squid, it was us, it wasn't anything, it was just our imaginations. And, once again, no one listened to me. Ralph defended me though, saying that I had the conch so I had the right to speak. Then that was when everything just.. well... broke. Any decorum that we had left vanished. Jack exploded tempestuously at Ralph and at me. I'm so scared of him! I know if Ralph wasn't here that I would be long gone. At this point the sun was long gone. The gathering of people was in total darkness. I've noticed that people's minds change in darkness. That when they can't see, they have to imagine whats beyond there vision range. It's scary, the way everyone goes crazy. And that's exactly what happened. Jack lead a sort of tribal dance, everyone followed him, minds gone and everything. They sang a chant and dance around. It was scary, we couldn't see only hear. The sounds made me shiver. And then when I realized it was only Ralph, Simon and me left, we heard an eerie screech from the tall grass. It was Percival, who had fainted when talking about the beastie. He was crying and yelling and the sound of it made us all move together. His mind was completely gone! It was like it had just snapped. I told Ralph to blow the conch and get everyone back together but he wouldn't. He was afraid if he did, no one would come and his leadership would really mean nothing. As we all stood there, shivering with terror, and exhausted, I realized that I had never missed home more than now and I lamented quietly.