The elevator lurched. I thought someone was in it, but instead I realized with horror that that was not the case at all. Thousands of rats crept up the sides of the metal box. 

"Not again!" I said, before screaming as they engulfed me. And so it was I passed out while screaming, which is very uncomfortable.

I woke up in a white bed, in a white room, with some jerk pointing a very bright light into my pupil. "?" I said, which is to say I tried to speak and all that came out was an awkward mumble.

"Ah, so you're awake," Said the nurse. "You were about to get crushed in an elevator, do you remember that?"

"B..." I said.

She smiled sweetly, and looked like a total idiot.

"Kchdit." I said.

She continued smiling, and I felt frustration rising in me.

Something caught the corner of my eye. It was a rat. Strangely, this one was alone. It was hiding in the corner of the room. I made a noise of extreme consternation, and the nurse giggled. 

The dog watched me curiously. He said, "We go to the Meeting Place." He pointed with his muzzle to the cliff above us. I nodded.

The rest of the pack followed cautiously behind as we climbed the slope. Around us, other creatures stirred. A mountain lion paced several yards away, and birds and other animals made their way towards the top. I saw many animals gathered, not all of them familiar. Deer, rats, birds and tall reptilian creatures.

"We will speak," Said Max, "Plan future. For us, for the world."

I looked down the steep slope to the massacre below. "If you aren't the predators," I said, "Then what killed them?" I indicated the slaughtered humans. Max stiffened.

"They would not reason with us. We had no choice, to protect ourselves we had to kill them. They were not like you."

Hans looked at the dog, and then at me. Emilia said, "You're right, not like us. We'll help you, we'll help plan a new civilization..."

Yes that's what I want That will do fine give me one NOW!!  "It's ok mate hang on wont be long now." Time is a funny thing isn't it one minute I'm having this nightmare the next I'm lying in a warm bed covered in blankets with a very pretting young thing looking at me with concern in her eyes asking me      " How are you feeling?" Well I don't know how I'm feeling actually because I don't know where I am or what has happened to me. 

Then there was a man in a white coat prodding me and asking the same thing. Ok I must be in a hospital, out of  the car and in hospital, what did I promice God  in my fear? I was going to be good from here on in OK thats what I'm going to be. I tried to speak but apparently nothing came out because they didnt take any notice of me. They both looked worried this man and this pretty women, they shook their heads and said