Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental. Sometimes I thought that without the pools, we would have fallen prey to the big carnivores long ago. You should have woken up too, to hear…”
“Hear what?” I asked, puzzled. Sort of a modern day Adam and Eve, assuming we’re allowed to remake the myth… Alliances were made and broken quickly, but the only one who could leave the lakeshore was the Siberian tiger. I was neither a zoologist nor a biologist, but I had no doubt that such a mass of animals in only a few square kilometers would soon – with or without warlike exhortations – lead to a real massacre. A little monkey – and it looked like the very one who had been watching us at the food trough for a long time – was trying to rape the girl. We were standing on the shore of a lake with clear, blue waters, and on the beach around it were a host of sleeping animals.
