Page 53 - Dark Matter Women Witnessing
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...The elephant stopped and looked me in the eye. We
stayed this way a long time. Ten minutes perhaps....
Then he turned and moved to the back of the truck and
faced it. I moved to him and put my hands out again. We looked at
each other eye to eye.
...Another ten minutes passed.
...I heard words in my mind and I let them be spoken
silently. I promise you....
He turned and went behind the truck as if to disappear up
the hill into the brush but turned again and faced the truck and so I
turned also and on my knees again, acknowledged him.
...Another ten minutes passed.... The elephant departed,
climbing slowly up the hill and disappeared into the trees.
...We did not explain or understand anything except that
Amanda Foulger said, “You are an ambassador and they sent their
ambassador and you have made a covenant with each other.
It was getting late and one must be out of the park by 7
o’clock. We made our way slowly...
But then we couldn’t believe our eyes. Elephants were
coming down the hill and crossing the road to the river. At first only
a few females and their babies, but then more of them. Waves of
elephants. Waves upon waves. ...The elephants continued to
come. Dozens of them lined up alongside the river and still more
were coming. Bulls and cows, old ones and young ones, babies
and adolescents. It was like ...it was like the world ended and then
it was saved and the animals were coming forth into the new dawn.
...The animals were lined up for a quarter mile as if for a
parade.... They were bowing their heads and flapping their ears at
us. And we were bowing and waving and saying, “Thank you. And
bless you. And thank you. And bless you.”
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