 I'll lay my eggs right here, she said, placing some dry grass on the window, Ledge. Are you crazy? Look how high this nest will be. How will you walk our little ducks when they are babies? And look, my darling, there's a human just behind that glass. That white-haired fellow, peering through his spectacles. Look in his eyes, there's an infinity of kind. Here on the boss, like the oceans. Launch the warfare and poison the soil, X-trees, punch holes. Say the marshy wizard has summoned an hourglass that flashed a light so bright that when he casted on those wicked ones, everyone could see them in that light. Everyone could see for a terrifying moment what they are. That's where they locked him up and they threw away the key because he sees what they are doing. He sees what they are doing. They keep him in that cold room, away from all the humans because he sees what they are doing. The egrets told us they talked to the pelicans. They talked to the fish. They talked to the dolphins. They talked to the whales. Well, the whales? Have you tried to tell the other farm humans? And all at once, all the beings got excited. Even the trees nodded with enthusiasm and the grass begged to be invited. I did, said the sparrow. I took him by surprise. I did, said a squirrel. I stared her in the eyes. I did, said the butterfly. I did, said the bee. I tidaled up to an ear of one and yelled, Let that with it free. We've all tried, said the turtle. In a voice as ancient as the breeze. Lizards, frogs, snakes and spiders, insects and bees. From sea life and land life, critters large and small. But the wicked ones cast a freezing spell that has them in their thrall. The humans can't see them behind the illusion that they hide. Invisible with the cage of beliefs. When the door opens and the winukes and fill the belly of the sea with plastic puke and havers all march to their murderous tune. Listen to the earth. Mama sends them to wake us, shake us and take us and show us what the world. Return to his love and said, You are safe my darling. And they smiled at the strange man behind the plexiglass and waited for the memories to unstick and for the humans to break free.