![]() “Why did you people chose the ugliest tree in the forest for your tree house?”Estrela had asked this earlier too and she knew the reply her father would say: “Just wait few more months and I’d tell you.” Estrela knew he’d be in tears in his room. “So it’s time to get proper sleep.” he said. Because that’s how they’d want us to live like.” he smiled at her. So we have to take care of ourselves and try to be happy. They continue to live on – in us, through us. He took a few deep breaths as if composing himself, then said: “We just have to make peace that the loved ones we’ve lost would want us to live on. No one in the village knew or could think of that – that would happen.” his voice became too heavy. ![]() But your mother didn’t want to miss teaching next day in her school. ![]() That ugly tree is the only thing still remaining of her.” She knew jaguars sometime attacked people in forest and they almost always singled out children, so she nodded silently.īut her voice broke down. And the jaguars and wolves seem to agree as they choose night’s darkness to hunt.” her father explained. The leaves diffuse and reflect enough to see. “Light doesn’t need to touch the ground to light up the forest. What could her father possibly reply against such a valid argument? She wondered. She’d heard that factoid in Planet Earth show. What difference it makes in night?” she smirked victoriously. “This is a rainforest and even at peak noon only less than 2% of sunlight ever reaches the ground. “Even for a brave 12 year old girl!”, her father explained as he declined her request, this evening. But in darkness the forest is too scary to wander alone and that tree was too far away in the forest for a 12 year old. In daylight she’d walk a few miles to reach a particular tree and sit beneath it. She’d turned 12 just last month but she enjoyed walks in the forest more than her peers of same age.
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