Laughing, Ralph looked for confirmation round the ring of faces. The older boys agreed; but here and there among the little ones was the doubt that required more than rational assurance.
"He must have had a nightmare. Stumbling about among all those creepers."
More grave nodding; they knew about nightmares.
"He says he saw the beastie, the snake-thing, and will it come back tonight?"
"But there isn't a beastie!"
"He says in the morning it turned into them things like ropes in the trees and hung in the branches. He says will it come back tonight?"
"But there isn't a beastie!"
- "Lord of the Flies," - William Golding (1954)
We've officially entered "beastie" territory, and with "Old Wounds" nearing us towards the halfway mark of "Yellowjackets" Season 2 . . . the hunt is on. Up to this point, we've been busying ourselves with wondering who The Antler Queen is, but from this point on that will seem to take a back seat to the question of "Who is Jack, Simon and Ralph?" once a split takes place and sides are chosen.
