Stranded in Thoughts
But it was silent as if someone had pressed mute on the entire scene.
The wildlife didn’t seem right either. Sure, there were familiar animals—deer and wild boars—but mixed among them were things far stranger. Giant, mosquito-like creatures with butterfly wings flitted near a patch of enormous, strange-looking flowers at the hillside’s edge. A herd of massive, rhino-shaped beasts grazed lazily nearby, completely indifferent to our presence. Further below, at the grassy foot of the waterfall, I spotted a troop of large-eared monkeys, almost the size of elephants, huddled together in a circle like athletes psyching themselves up before a match.
I hoped we’d never get close enough to find out w
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