Here around her and beneath her feet, the forest was alive; Here - I realized for the first time - how small it was within an entire universe that contained entities that were not as old as life itself, older than humans. Now that winter has arrived, I know that the countdown has begun, and soon he will rise from the trees, shed his garment of civilization, and will howl like a chanteuse, heading toward her home, to reap the life he has waited for so long.