PRIMAL by ReddRatt

In 1981, a heavy fog fell over the Křivoklát region. It was autumn, a Sunday, and most people stayed at home, drinking coffee and talking about the coming week. But one man decided to go outside. He took his portable tape recorder, a flashlight, and set out to explore.

Something long forgotten awoke within him—something primitive and full of wonder. He wandered through the forest for twelve hours, while the trees roared so powerfully and loudly that he eventually lost consciousness. When he came to, there was nothing but silence.

The fog began to lift, and in the distance a red light flickered. It took him two days to reach it. At the end of his journey he found a massive steel box, emitting the same sounds that had nearly destroyed him before. With awe and fear he watched it, then held it close, guarding it as if it were his own child.

Sometime around 2003, his journey came to an end. Beneath a great fir tree, he collapsed and died. Yet his recorder captured the final sounds of that machine, which disappeared along with him. The only thing that remains is the tape full of primal wonder.

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