Overhanging Tree Branch

Short Round reaches from the baby elephant's back to pluck a vine of ripe wild fruit dangling from this overhanging tree branch in the sunlit lower jungles. Thick foliage sways gently over the path, ripe clusters brush close as the elephant passes underneath. The branch frames Short Round's tender feeding of the animal, a pocket of calm amid humid green density. Giant bats soon blot the sky overhead, their shadows sweeping the idyllic overhang into sudden threat.