08/03/26 20:52:59
短編です。語彙チェックにもどうぞ
I was in a dark, dreary cave, which, from my point of view,
bears a seeming resemblance to a hopeless vault
where all the souls that cannot achieve nirvana when their containers
are still alive gather together as if to dissipate loneliness
from which they cannot escape in the state of separation.
Why I was here did not matter;
what mattered was to squeeze out of my poor brains a quick-witted idea
which could safely extricate me from this terrible, ghoulish predicament.
In front of me, and above, visibly illuminated by the powerful flashlight in my left hand,
were a large swarm of monstrous, demon-like bats of colossal size,
so colossal that in seeing them you would undoubtedly realize
that the maxim “seeing is believing” is not always a right one.
There was an irritating sensation of something cold feebly hitting my face intermittently,
perhaps dripping water or perhaps, and less likely, urine of the formidably hideous creatures,
but I could not identify what it is, completely lost in the overwhelming sense of emergency.
Then, all of a sudden, the horde of enormous carnivores,
which had hovered in the air absent-mindedly,
launched a fearful assault on me, and …. The rest is silence.