Chapter 27

⁠​​​‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​‌​​‌​‌​​​​‌‌‌​​​‌‌‌‌​‌​‌‌​‌‌​‌‌​​‌​​​‌⁠As I watched him depart, hallucinations swirling through my brain like furious fireworks, I had a bizarre thought. In an ancient rainforest all things are still possible. The old fairy tales we grew up with mostly took place in a deep wood where evil could lurk unfettered. Today, though, the earth's forests no longer symbolize the unknowable dark within us. Nowadays, the ogres of our nightmares de