Having set foot into the zoo I nurtured the facetious temperament within me, for what I was about to undertake was indeed a radical act. The automated cages could either open wide or remain shut, allowing for zero ambiguity in this regard, like a perfect binary. I had no planned course of action so I wandered around till I saw two young women conversing near the alligators, the length of our distance was just enough to grant me a clear view of their expressions whilst also keeping me in an auditory darkness. Though, as far as I was concerned, they looked incredibly dumb. I remained alert that soon enough, if all goes well, this is where I shall sprout. Alas! I had done it - the flesh of hypothesis-scathed and sour! I had opened all the cages! The evanescent whispers of mammals started ringing in my ears, 2 zebras, 2 giraffes, the lion and its cubs, the silent tigers, the drying hippos, all asserting and the weather was our sole spectator. The dirt in their claws and hooves. Their unarched eyes, a state of non-stick! A wondrous permeability! A dominion! The tower of 9000 lions breaking the sky’s barrier. It was only then that my transfiguration started into an ill- translated animal, standing on all fours. A mammal in all its modulations, a figure like no other, extremely ugly, retarded even. In truth I was more like clay, barely resembling a mammal, but indeed I was one of them now. Marching forth, singing a joined choir, our cosmopolitan herd. Our aligned gaze stronger than blinding light, we approached typical figures at the bus station, our only intention was star gazing but instead we seemed to have started a firework. Black and blue countenances rapidly estranged our proximity in the fashion of pulsating beads. It was clear that this was just a beginning, the reign of all fours.
