What three of us wished during our three-day trip was that we would jump into the sea and hop and do everything we wanted to. But in reality, there were rains—from the day we got out of the house till the day we returned. During the trip, what we did was stay inside the tent, in an old stone house that humans abandoned, cover our bodies with blankets, and watch the sea waves and the dark sky.
However, Robert and I learned a new thing from Crow. She told us about her family. She didn’t tell us in detail, just some short clips of her background. What I was so interested in was when her father told her to have her own place without telling anyone in this life.
“Why did your father tell you to do it?” Robert asked.
“It’s because of my great-grandfather’s experience,” Crow said.
“Can you tell us?” I said.
“Well,” Crow wagged her head, “my great-grandfather was honest to his crows. He shared with the group everything he knew or did. He even told them about a place he made to hide if he encountered a danger. One day when he was trying to take a piece of meat from a yard, the human threw a stick at him, and he got wounded. He flew to stay in his secret place. While he was curing his wound, a wolf appeared. My great-grandfather struggled very hard to run out of the clutch of the wolf. He wondered how the wolf could find that place because it was so mysterious. Then he remembered he had shared it with his group. After he got well, he searched, and then he found out that there were a few crows in the group; some didn’t like him, and some liked him, but they liked to talk; these two kinds told about his secret place to other groups, and the news was spread till it reached the ears of the wolf. After that experience, my great-grandfather didn’t share all of his information, especially things that were related to safety. And he taught his next generations about it.”
“It means you have your own place where you can go when you meet a danger, don’t you?” Robert asked.
Crow nodded.
“You don’t tell anyone, do you?” I said.
“On the earth, only I know where it is,” Crow claimed.
Robert and I wagged our heads.
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