Someone Else's Kingdom, BOOK I - Chapter 27

Gelkin had had a typical lazy day. From where he was lying he could see the sea, a pristine blue. With the soft sky above him, dotted with the odd fluffy white cloud, sloping down to meet it in an aquatic blur at the horizon. As he pulled himself to his feet the small, macaque-like monkey that was now tagging along with him - dog-like - also sprung to life.

Thinking he might start work on the second shelter he was building, Gelkin headed into the interior of the island to find a suitable tree to cut down. Finding one he liked the look of he took out his rope saw; first to take off a few of the main branches, before cutting down the full tree itself. The little monkey, following his focus, playfully climbing the tree, up to the branches above his head. As he tried to shoo it down to sever the first branch a deer-like creature, with a blue streak of fur across its face, came wandering into an opening nearby. After a brief period of eye contact it then skipped back off into the leafy green undergrowth. Gelkin casually returned to cutting down the tree.