Chapter 118

The inspiration you seek

Is already inside you

Be silent and listen

-Rumi

Three days before departure

I am in the cafeteria reading up on the beasts again. I found some books on them in the pagoda. I picked the oldest one. It has a leather back with bumps on it. It is a dark orange.

‘Blood attracts them.’ It makes them go crazy if they get even a whiff of their scent. So, humans are blood sucking mosquitoes. I never thought a statement could be so true until now.

The words on the page are written in a chaotic fashion. The calligraphy seems rushed, you can imagine the uneasiness the writer must have felt. Why? I do not know.