Somewhere off in the distance, something like a translucent wall loomed around where we stood. “Oh, God, you’re awake!” the woman next to me said angrily. The species destined to be the ruler of the planet…”
I looked around more closely, the last remnants of sleep banished. They were stalking each other and delaying the outcome for as long as possible, as if realizing that they were the last representatives of the animal kingdom on Earth. I reached out my hand and encountered a coarse hair. “I don’t know, I didn’t get a chance to look,” she said helplessly. And that they – but I don’t know who they are – are going to fix that. I pushed it with my hand. Before opening my eyes wide, I wondered how drunk I could have been last night to climb into bed with such a woman. I descended more and more slowly for the water and the yellowish muck, and then I cautiously dragged the tree trunk behind me.
