The ducklings were stopping traffic. Well, not exactly traffic. Just the one car. The car I was in with my husband. The windows were rolled down to let in the fresh air. We were city folks, who'd left home for pastoral scenes and country air. Outside the car were nothing but rolling hills, stretches of forest, white clapboard houses and red barns. A dozen or so black cows, and a family of ducks.
"There is no way I am going to that party!" I yowled while I banged the steering wheel.
"You're going if I have to drag you!" he yowled back.
"You'll have to pull me by the hair!" I screeched out the open window. I didn't know I could screech like that. I was pissed.
That's when I heard the clop clop clopping coming up fast alongside the car.
"What on earth is that noise?!" I was grateful for the distraction, but what was that unearthly noise?!
I saw a horse nose pass the car and stop right around the level of my car's headlights.
A straw hat with sparkling eyes and a long long beard appeared in the driver's side window, my side. Inches from my steaming mad face.
The man in the straw hat came right up close to my face and gazed into my eyes. I saw that there was a strange glow in his eyes.
Seeing that glow and the redness of his eyes, I was feeling a little scared. But it was getting late, so I got angry at him and asked who he was and why he had left ducklings on the road, causing people's get late to their destination.
The man who looked like a demon laughed with a terrifying laugh and said, "Oh girl, these ducklings are not mine, and you will not be able to go ahead unless the Almighty God wants it.
" He has an account of your every moment, so don't get too excited. Leave yourself free in the stream of water. Let it do whatever God wants it to do.
I could not understand what he was saying, but there was some supernatural power in his words, under whose magical effect my mind went numb. I looked at him again and saw that the cap guy was missing from there.
My power to think and understand was exhausted.
As if by magic, there was now not even a duckling to be seen on the road, as if they had disappeared by a magical effect.
I looked ahead from the windscreen and found that the road was very clear. I drove the car. About 2 km ahead, a part of the road was completely broken, and there was no way to go any further if we were going at our old speed.
If that man had not come, there could have been an accident. Maybe it was a miracle and God had sent an angel to protect us. Our lives were saved due to this.
