Two more months passed, and I had returned to the
streets, but I no longer belonged there. All the cars, the noise, the hurried
people annoyed me; I felt like my head couldn't handle so much volume. Besides,
I had grown hairs, and the hairs had grouped together, and now it was a fur, a
very strange one that covered me. The first day I looked at myself in the
mirror with such a coat, I remembered kindergarten and how the teacher had
asked us what animal we wanted to be, as if there were a possible way for us to
become one. Everyone had answered dogs or cats, rabbit the boldest, I said snow
leopard, and the teacher looked at me with fear. "It's very pretty,"
I added to make her stop looking scared, but I don't think she believed me. She
saw something at that moment, and in the end, she was right.