You should have woken up too, to hear…”
“Hear what?” I asked, puzzled. “Why didn’t you come sooner?” Laura shouted in offense. The platform on the tanks was about twenty feet in diameter, and at a guess could serve us well enough as shelter for a while. It looked like a circle, three or four kilometers in diameter, on the surface of which almost every animal on earth had been crammed. With the slight difference that I was not Noah, the helmsman of the Ark, but a mere animal. It seemed that all the animals, without exception, had woken up. The species destined to be the ruler of the planet…”
I looked around more closely, the last remnants of sleep banished. Or crocodiles,” I added when I saw the eye of the reptile in the lake staring at me from a distance, with a fixity I didn’t like at all, straight ahead. “So what do you think we’re left to do then?” she asked after a while. It was like a milky screen, letting light through, but no image.
