The War of the Worlds, by H G Wells chapter 10 "In the Storm"

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The War of the Worlds, by H G Wells chapter 10 "In the Storm", narrated by Isaac Birchall
The firing suddenly stopped when making their way to Leatherhead which made the evening strange. Our Protagonist, after dining with his cousins makes the journey back to Maybury, around 11. The Sky was black, and the clouds were moving very quickly. Coming up by Pryford Church, Maybury hill shows in a red glare, presenting the storm to him. Lightning strikes, and with it, the dreaded 3rd cylinder.
As the horse gather speed, frightened by the storm, a great moving figure makes its way down the hill. A Huge engine, striding across the heather, like milking stool bowled violently across the ground. It snaps all sorts of trees, and then the second appeared, coming straight for our main character, in the quickening fear, his dogcart tips over, forcing him into a puddle.
Looking again at the tripod, he sees green smoke coming from its tentacles, and it lets out a siren like cry, it leaves as soon as it came, and it and the other tripod make their ways towards the 3rd cylinder.
Slowly struggling to his feet, the Protagonist starts to crawl his way to the pinewoods towards Maybury, and once in the woods, he walks stealthily home. En Route he sees the start of the destruction of the creatures and the storm. He runs into a man who bolts in the other direction to him, and at the top of the hill he finds a body curled on the floor, the man he was supposed to return the Dogcart to. After making his way home, he notices that nothing in the immediate area has been injured, the houses are for the most part fine. Locking the door behind him, he sits on the steps and weeps for the destruction and terror he has seen.

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