In doing so, however, they will poison the planet for its human residents, who must die so that the invaders may live. It is revealed, later, that other animals are also leading rescue efforts to save other children.Īs they search for answers, the townspeople conclude that they are under siege by extraterrestrial invaders who have come as an advance party to reverse-terraform the Earth so that its altered atmosphere will support their alien physiological needs. Oddly, Virgil seems to be able to supernaturally sense when and where certain children are endangered. Meanwhile, the people at the tavern, split into warring factions, struggle against the mysterious threat that has seized their town. Molly and Neil, accompanying a stray dog named Virgil, set off on a mission to rescue the town’s children, many of whom are trapped in their homes. From time to time, huge objects drift above the terrified populace, and people feel as if they are known, completely, by whatever or whoever occupies these aerial craft – if the silent, drifting objects are crafts of some kind. Peculiar fungi appear in the restroom of a local tavern, and a frightening fungus grows upon trees, lawns, houses, and people alike. Unfamiliar noises are heard and strange lights are seen. It is implied that the phenomenon is the product of an alien invasion. By then, Molly and Neil are in the town's tavern, where around 60 people have gathered with pets and children. In its place, a thick, ominous fog obscures everything, reducing trees and buildings to looming shadows. After 10 hours of downpour, the rain stops. They decide to flee their isolated home, gathering with the residents of the nearby small mountain town, in order to prepare a resistance, though they are not even sure against what they will be fighting. They are only able to gather that the same phenomenon is taking place all over the world, before all communications are lost. Once she comes back to the house, Molly and Neil search for information in the news. On an instinctual level, she realizes that there is something unclean about the rain.
Disturbed, she steps outside, to stand among the wild beasts, and is frightened herself – not by the animals, but by the strange, oddly luminescent rain.
She wonders what could have frightened such animals into leaving the sanctuary of the deep woods to brave the proximity of human beings. Unable to return to sleep, she leaves her husband Neil slumbering in bed and goes downstairs to work on a manuscript in progress.ĭark shapes huddle on her porch – coyotes from the nearby forest. In the midst of an oddly sudden rain storm, author Molly Sloan awakens in the middle of the night. The Taking is a 2004 novel written by Dean Koontz.
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