:25:00
...over the beach
of the Encantadas...
:25:02
...while the new sea turtles
scrambled out...
:25:05
...and started their race to the sea.
:25:08
- Race to the sea?
- To escape the flesh-eating birds...
:25:11
...that made the sky almost black.
:25:14
And I said, "Sebastian, no.
No, it's not like that."
:25:19
But he made me look.
He made me see that terrible sight.
:25:24
- What was not like that?
- Life.
:25:26
I said, " No.
:25:28
No! That's not true!"
:25:31
But he said it is.
:25:33
He said, " Look, Violet.
Look, there on the shore."
:25:37
And I looked and saw the sand
all alive, all alive...
:25:42
...as the new-hatched sea turtles
dashed to the sea...
:25:45
...while the birds hovered
and swooped to attack...
:25:48
...and hovered and swooped to attack.
:25:52
They were diving down
on the sea turtles...
:25:55
...turning them over
to expose their soft undersides...
:26:01
...tearing their undersides open...
:26:04
...and rending and eating their flesh.
:26:10
Sebastian guessed that possibly...
:26:13
...only a hundredth
of one percent of their number...
:26:17
...would escape to the sea.
:26:21
Nature isn't created
in the image of man's compassion.
:26:24
Nature is cruel!
:26:26
Sebastian knew it all along,
was born knowing it, but not I.
:26:30
I said, " No, no, those are
only birds, turtles, not us."
:26:35
I didn't know then it was us.
:26:37
That we are all of us trapped
by this devouring creation.
:26:42
I couldn't, wouldn't face
the horror of the truth...
:26:46
...even that last day
in the Encantadas...
:26:48
...when Sebastian left me...
:26:50
...and spent the whole
blazing, equatorial day...
:26:54
...in the crow's-nest,
watching that thing on the beach...
:26:57
...until it was too dark to see.