Moss People Journal, entry 2
Yesterday I traveled back to the spot where I had first seen the Moss People. A friend of mine had warned me that it might be dangerous to court further encounters with them for they knew I was aware of their existence. I was fearful, to be sure. I believed I may have been marked for capture for the very fact that I did have evidence of their presence.
But I felt safer in that I was not bringing my original photographic evidence with me, for I reasoned that should I be captured I could tell them that I had left instructions that my previous photograph of the whispering Moss People was to be published if I did not return (at the time it had not occurred to me that we probably would not share the same language and I would not be able to communicate this to them). Indeed, part of my intention in sharing these images with you is my wish for people to know of my wondrous discovery should something happen to me.
When I arrived at the site, I set my camera on a tripod and trained it at the rock where I had before witnessed the two Moss People whispering. With my camera's remote in my hand I moved off a short distance and, finding a comfortable moss-covered surface to lean against, feigned a close examination of my eyelids.
I waited long, so that I very nearly drifted off to sleep on several occasions. Evening was approaching when my vigil was at last rewarded. Through half closed eyes I saw the mossy rock surface metamorphose in the space of two or three seconds into the face of another Moss Person, transformed like soft plastic or clay in the hands of an invisible master sculptor. A thrill shot through my body. I had been rewarded by the sight of yet another Moss Person! That such wonders existed was almost impossible to believe.
Awed as I was, I did not forget my plan. My thumb closed upon the shutter release and my camera began firing at 4 frames per second. Immediately the face melted back into the rock. An examination of the memory card revealed that only the first frame had caught the face, all others were of the unaltered mossy rock. I have provided here the image my camera recorded.
