I was dreaming! I saw big things that grew out of the ground. They were much taller than me with long brown arms covered with green leaves.

I never thought a living thing could be so big. I covered my eyes with my hands. I was afraid to look… but I was afraid not to look.

I was very frightened as I remembered something in the Book of Remembering: "In those days there were trees…"

There was a door at the other end of the tunnel. I went through and…

But I didn't feel safe.

After a time I took my hands away from my eyes. The trees were still there. They weren't moving.

I suddenly understood that the trees couldn't move. They were plants, like potatoes or rice. I was safe standing under them.

Trees!

Now I could touch and smell things. There was a soft wind. It was cool. I smelt… strange new smells. I smelt living things. Was I smelling the trees… or something else?

The computer inside my spacesuit was checking the air for me. After a few seconds the red lights on my suit turned to green. The air here was safe for humans. So I took off my spacesuit.

Was something hiding behind the tree? I was frightened but I wanted to see, so I walked slowly towards the tree.

I was frightened almost out of my mind. I fell down and my body started shaking.

I heard a sound of crying. Then I thought I heard something moving in the trees -- just behind one big tree.

There was hot air on my face. I wanted to scream and scream but I was too frightened. I couldn't scream.

But the thing had teeth. Yes, it had a mouth full of teeth, yellow, shiny teeth. It had yellow eyes and grey hair all over its body. I could smell it…

There was light in this place but there were shadows in the trees. I looked round the tree…

My mind exploded. I went crazy. I suddenly hit the grey thing and it fell back against the tree. I hit it again, as hard as I could.

A grey thing came out from behind the tree and came towards me. It was big but it wasn't tall because it walked on four feet. It had no hands.

I wanted to destroy the grey thing and I was screaming. Suddenly it was gone.

Its mouth came towards my face. I closed my eyes and waited to die.

Then the big grey monster ran back through the trees, jumped at me and knocked me down. As I fell, I dropped the little monster and it escaped.

I pulled its short legs hard. The small monster bit me. Its teeth went right into my finger. The pain was terrible.

Then I saw another monster. This one was very small with grey fur all over its body. It was holding on to the tree but I pulled it off. I could destroy this one!

My head banged on a rock and everything went black.

But my mind was exploding. I wanted to destroy it and I didn't care about the pain. I just wanted to kill it.