When we check the phones their is no dial tone. Just a message that says circuits are busy, circuits are busy, circuits are busy. Someone is knocking on the outside wall. Not the door. But the wall.
Someone throws a rock against the window outside.
It smashes the glass and thuds against the wood of the paneling I have nailed up. More rocks, smashing. Outside there is no yelling or screaming or cursing. Not a sound other than the rocks pounding against the windows and the panels. Not another sound at all.