You should have woken up too, to hear…”
“Hear what?” I asked, puzzled. It was like a milky screen, letting light through, but no image. “Have you had time to look around more closely?” I asked her concerned. “Oh, God, you’re awake!” the woman next to me said angrily. It seemed that all the animals, without exception, had woken up. Otherwise, we don’t stand much of a chance against lions… “That’s the explanation! Alliances were made and broken quickly, but the only one who could leave the lakeshore was the Siberian tiger. A sturdier branch I’d found earlier on the ground under the trees. We reached the wall. Then a voice – or a thought – began to rumble somewhere inside me. At least it looked that way from where I was standing. However, he too died in the course of the afternoon… We reached the wall. Guns? I got a better look at the woman. or crocodiles.”
I took her hand and we headed toward the translucent wall in the distance. and, from first glance, we were the
