My father, the others in the village who spent time on the river, they always said if you keep quiet and you respect the caiman, he won’t hurt you, and I always believed them, but . . .” He closed his eyes, swallowed hard. “The one that came to the village. There was a baby crawling down by the riverbank. The caiman leaped out of the water and grabbed the baby. I was the only one that saw it happen.”
Dang, nature! You scary.
