Jalle's Narrow Escape: Travelling to Unearth Wisom

The early morning sun was slowly creeping over the horizon, making way for a beautiful day. The birds were singing, the flowers were blooming, and the cows were waking up. I would have loved to be up that early, but it was still dark out, and there was no way I could sleep in any longer.

The cows began their slow walk around the field, making their rounds and grazing as they went. This seemed like a strange habit to me, as there was plenty of grass everywhere.

“Moo?” One of the cows asked after it had stopped at my feet. I looked up from where I sat on the ground, and sure enough there was a cow staring down at me with its big brown eyes.

“Hello there!” I said with a cheerful smile. “Would you care to introduce yourself?”

The cow stared at me blankly before letting out another questioning moo. It took me several seconds to realize it wasn’t introducing itself at all, but asking a question instead. I guess if you only know one word of another language you don’t really have much choice but to use that same word over and over again until your message is received. “I am Jalle,” I replied. “It is very nice to meet you!” For a moment the cow just stood there, looking back at me as if waiting for more information on my part.

“Uhm, can you tell me what your name is?” I asked hopefully. The cow turned around and started walking away before stopping a few feet away and turning back towards me again. Then it let out another ‘moo- question’ which I interpreted as her telling me her name was Daisy (which happened to be the name of one of my sisters). She then walked off again and continued on her rounds.

As the sun rose higher in the sky some of the other cows began disappearing into small huts dotted around the field while others went into larger ones that resembled barns or stables. Daisy joined them all in one of these bigger buildings, with many other cows going inside with her, before closing the door behind them all. There were so many doors in this building that it felt like it must house thousands of cows, though it clearly couldn’t possibly fit them all inside! Where had they gone? The other smaller buildings didn’t seem quite as full either.

Finally when most of the cows had all disappeared from sight I decided it was time for me to go searching for those who remained outside so that I could start learning more about them and their unusual customs.

I spent most of that day trying to talk to various different cows while they were busy grazing or drinking water from one of many troughs or ponds scattered around the field, but none of them seemed interested in talking to me much beyond replying with their single word answer whenever I tried asking questions myself. When I did manage to get any conversation going beyond those two words though, it always ended up being Daisy who answered me instead! When she wasn’t ignoring my questions entirely however she would often give one word answers or just moo at me while moving on to talk to other cows instead!

By sundown most of the cows had disappeared into those big buildings again leaving me completely alone in the field aside from Daisy who still refused to talk to me (or anyone else for that matter!). As night fell even she left though and made her way back towards one of those big buildings along with everyone else leaving only silence behind where an entire herd had been just a few hours earlier! Curious about what happened during that time period I decided now would be a good time for me to investigate further by sneaking into one of those buildings myself! But how?! With no doors left open anywhere within viewing range it seemed almost impossible for someone like myself who could barely see anything in this darkness without any sort [of light] available! That was when it occurred to me though: maybe they left this door open on purpose? Maybe they want us humans to follow them? Maybe they want us humans here too?!

Instead I decided to wait until morning this time so that I could see where exactly they were going and why they kept disappearing like that all day long only returning once night fell again…