bugs.

 Mounden--I love him so much. Tonight, way after dark, he said in 
 English, "Let's RUN!" I ran and put on my pink tennies. He said we'd 
 run out to the Bere sign, about a mile one way. Not more than a minute 
 out, we hit a massive blur of bugs that totally clogged the road. I 
 yelled, "Close your mouth!" But soon we were all stumbling around 
 trying to get the bugs out of our eyes--Mounden was almost crying, he 
 said it hurt so much. We kept running though, and I said, "Close your 
 eyes!" Finally, I said, "Turn! Like this!" And so we ran backwards 
 for a long time and that was better. After a while, the bugs got 
 better, and we turned straight once again.
 
 Through the deep black, I could see some swishing white bodies, and as 
 they got closer, I could tell they were the white robes of men. The 
 white was much like that of my legs. As I ran past, they hollered, 
 "It's a white person!" I ran my white legs even faster, way ahead of 
 Mounden and Kousimmia and Dule. Arriving at the Bere sign, we all 
 touched it, and turned back on the road. The bugs weren't so bad 
 now. I was very preoccupied with the fact that we were going to have 
 to pass the white swishing robes again, and my legs had not gotten any 
 darker. I told Mounden to run in front of me, and Kousimmia to run 
 tight behind me--like a sandwich, and maybe, we'd run so fast that my 
 legs would be a blur, one that would blur in with the bugs and maybe 
 nobody would know. The plan worked perfectly. Kousimmia asked me 
 afterwards, "So you're afraid of them?" I said, "No, but its dark, and 
 you're not very strong."