As the children sleep, they do not see the lights of an air battle high above them, nor do they see the parachute descending on the island. Sam and Eric, asleep when they are supposed to be tending the fire, also do not see the parachute until they wake before dawn and relight the fire. They can’t quite make out the parachute or the man in the darkness, so they think the beast has returned. They rush down the hill to wake Ralph, who calls an assembly. In the assembly, Ralph decides they must try to find the beast. Leaving Piggy with the littluns, Ralph, Jack, and the bigguns set off for the only part of the island they haven’t explored. Where the rock comes down from the mountain higher up, Ralph and Jack find a protected outcropping, which Jack says would make a great fort, easily defended. With some of his hunters, he begins pushing great rocks down into the sea, but Ralph says there is no food. He says they must build up the fire again to have any hope of rescue.