The following morning we climbed down the tree and started walking without a word.

After a while I felt sick and I was tired of walking with my journey companion completely silent like a fish, so I grabbed Emunah's arm.

"For how long will you be silent? Why do we behave like children?"

"Don't touch me!" she replied suddenly, moving back and getting off my hand "You already know what there is to do. What do you want me to tell you?"

"How can we manage to end this task if we don't cooperate?" I asked.

"Can't you understand stranger? This isn't about getting some feather or reaching the top of the mountain! Why do you think that they gave us the satchel with nothing in it?"

"As you always say, I don't know. I am asking for your help now to understand."

After I said that, Emunah's face completely changed and the need to be aggressive went away.

"Okay alright. You must understand first that everything you witnessed here all this time is symbolic. Everything has been made for a teaching hidden in the concrete. Everything" she said calmly.

"What do you mean?" I replied without understanding.

"Think about this mission, it has a meaning in the concrete but it carries a teaching too. The satchel for example. It means that we need to be empty and be filled again, I guess" She said pointing at it, hanging by her side.

"Okay, but what about the top of the mountain and the feathers?"

"I don't know and we need to figure it how. The only thing I can suggest is that we can't climb the mountain unless we walk in circle around it. We can't do the straight path"

"Are you sure there is nothing more to know about?" I asked.

"Let me think...the objects!" She cried.

"They knew that if we were wise we would had picked them! I 'm sure of it! What was your color back there? Blue?"

"Yes it was" I replied.

"It's all clear now!" As she said that, she took the two stones from the satchel.

"Give me your string!"

She put the rocks on the ground and lied the string in between.

"This is the salmon path" She said.

"What does it mean?" I replied curious.

"The salmon is a fish that swims upstream. It goes downstream to be an adult but his parents go up the river to mate. The same way we need to go upstream for the greatest of all powers, life"

"How can this be linked to us?" I asked.

"They want us to find new awareness to life, the sacred union between male and female that lives inside each one of us, the effort to reach the place to avoid extinction of our kind and the objects we chose are the map leading us there" she said resolute.

"We need to share our culture and our ways of living, as Tov suggested" said Emunah after a while.

"Since I come from your world, I will share what you don't know still"

We kept walking until the end of the forest and we reached the river. Tired, we stopped and I improvised a hook with some tiny branches that I used to fish with the string I had with me.

She managed to light the fire in no time while I couldn't get any fish so we collected some berries and fruits and we ate.

Suddenly Emunah's voice broke the silence and she said.

"We won't survive this way. Tonight we are going to hunt"

"I am coming with you" I replied, even if I had no experience at all and looking back I never dreamed to chase what was already in my fridge. "Can I ask you what changed your mood before?"

"I forgot that I am you. I recognized myself in your eyes. We are all connected, the separation is the greatest illusion. You are just a part that need to experience the things I only can teach you. My anger towards you is an anger that I carry towards myself and the world. There is no need to be rude to you, you are just a reflection of the dream we all share in this plane of existence. Can you see that tree? If you turn or move you expect that that tree didn't move or changed, but it is the conviction of its presence that makes you see it. We see the same tree or maybe different ones, but the fact there is something to see that is shared doesn't make it real. Just the nerves and the five senses gives you a way to discover this dream like experience. What I mean is, have you ever considered  experiencing this life in an other way using senses beyond sight, smell, hearing, touch and taste? " She asked.