🧵3/5 At the height of the downpour, a strange, blurry vision coalesced out of the mists and rain: an older backpacking couple hiking with a teenage blind girl being led by a reluctant cat on a leash. Conversation was next to impossible above the din of terrestrial and celestial waters.

🧵4/5 We nodded to each other, and I kept on walking. The rain curtain closed back around me, and I was alone with the falling waters and the forest. Several minutes later, I mumbled to myself, “Well, that was interesting,”