Opportunity

I'm exhausted and my wrists hurt like Hell.

After I managed to get away, I found a small cave, obscured by pines, to call home for now. It's not much, but it's out of the way and not easy for something as tall as It to get in to. I spent all day building another makeshift blind, this time keeping a more careful eye out for any sign of It.

I was also up all last night carving flint arrowheads, carving them with the symbol, and mounting them onto sticks I found. It wasn't easy work, but I now have a good twenty-five or so arrows, each one marked with that weird symbol in the center. I'm in the blind now, and for good measure I carved that symbol on a bunch of trees nearby, scratched it in the dirt – everywhere. If what some of my confidantes online said about that symbol was true, then this is sure to draw It in. Gotta use the right bait for the right animal.

I have my bow and arrows close by, and I even drew the symbol onto my jackknife for good measure. It's not getting away from me and I'm not running from It anymore. Not this time.

Let's see how It likes being hunted for a change.