Under the Eye of the Big Bird by Hiromi Kawakami

Author:Hiromi Kawakami
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Catapult
Published: 2024-08-10T00:00:00+00:00

What a shame. He’s gone.

Some folks are just impatient.

But it’s interesting having these outside folk. This place is always changing, but even change stops being change when you get used to it.

I wonder how long I’ve been around, in twenty-four-hour cycles. Let’s see—one, and two, and three, and four, and . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Huh, it’s been something like three hundred years.

I haven’t gotten bored of being alive yet, but if I get there, I don’t mind dying. But the thought of being made to die, by conflict or something, like he was saying? No way. Count me out.

Oh, you came back. Yeah. You wanna try it?

We haven’t reproduced, and you’re not my kid, but I’ll make an exception.

There.

What are you doing? Just eat it. What, you need to cook it first?

Huh. There you go, then. I lit you a fire.

Yeah, I can light a little fire, too. I forgot to say. That’s right. Yeah, I can actually read you pretty well right now. I can read you, but I can still only understand what I can understand. That being the case I figure there’s no need to mention it.

I think you’re a little unhappy, to be honest, aren’t you? I try to stay away from unhappy people. But there was something about you that interested me.

What? You like it?

That’s great. But you’re lying, I can tell. You’re about to retch. Don’t hold back. You can bring it up. I won’t take it the wrong way.

Gone again. Too bad.

Yeah, these outside folk really are interesting. So he said there used to be a lot more people around. And that we can’t go on this way. That something needs to be done.

I’m not so sure about that. What’s wrong with the way things are? The number of people in this sector’s been going down little by little, but it’s not like that’s caused any problems. You can’t predict the future. And even if you did, you’d most likely be wrong.

Oh, you again. It was good? You aren’t even lying this time. You used more fire, and salt, and you liked it that way, huh?

Okay, you’re going now. Yeah, I enjoyed it. See you around. Tell me more about you sometime. I’m gonna go and be at the top of that giant tree for a while. Why don’t we meet up again in another hundred or two hundred years? You take care until then.

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