The moonlight illuminating the jungle around the building creates an alien landscape. I step down until my feet hit dirt, taking in the deep blue shadows and the slices of white light filtering through various types of frond and vine. The space around the steps is largely clear. A wooden boardwalk juts out of the ground and leads off through the shadows, its lit torches casting stranger, softer, warmer shadows.
The air is thick. The air conditioning in the compound all but sterilizes that very specific feeling of island, of being surrounded by water. The night air is perfumed with a thousand plants I don't know, and for a moment it's all so disorienting that, if I were anyone but who I am, if I were any younger, had seen any less, I might be worried about keeping my feet under me.
I breathe deep, let the warm, thick air fill my lungs.
"If I hadn't believed it already, this would just about do the trick," I say, walking out a little further from the concrete steps.
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Date: 2011-04-16 06:51 am (UTC)The air is thick. The air conditioning in the compound all but sterilizes that very specific feeling of island, of being surrounded by water. The night air is perfumed with a thousand plants I don't know, and for a moment it's all so disorienting that, if I were anyone but who I am, if I were any younger, had seen any less, I might be worried about keeping my feet under me.
I breathe deep, let the warm, thick air fill my lungs.
"If I hadn't believed it already, this would just about do the trick," I say, walking out a little further from the concrete steps.