Stroke At Midnight

It took one person every midnight. One person in the camp who was asleep at the stroke of midnight would never wake up again.

We lost too many people who didn't believe us, who just assumed they had just given up on the hellscape that was life.

But eventually enough people had died that the camp believed us. We instigated rules, everyone had to check in ten minutes prior, and make sure their partner was awake.

And it worked, we stopped losing people to whatever it was.

For a week. And then one person asleep at noon stopped waking up...