The Animals Were Never Alone
a Choose Your Own Adventure Essay
by Maria Lepistö and the Animal Sound Society
You do a breathing exercise, and it helps. With your lips pressed together, you can feel a steady pulse of determination entering your beating heart, and finally, it is your turn to speak! “Is it scientific?” you ask, and the scientists will answer, speaking in perfect unison. It is not as a common agreement among individuals, but from a position of an imagined observer, an imagined gaze.

If you empathize with Karl, who dares to face this gaze, the gaze of power, go to 122

If you get a sudden urge to check your phone or walk away, go to 79

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