Siri Paiboun, the national coroner, had been wondering whether his new incarnation might be disruptive to the natural laws of animal behavior. It looked around to get its bearings, then headed once more for the wall.įor over a month, Dr. Siri could see the stunned confusion on its little puckered face. For a house lizard this was the equivalent of a man coming unstuck from the ground and falling up with a crash onto the ceiling. The animal had lost its grip and come plummeting down with a splat onto the bare concrete of the guesthouse floor. On both occasions, the unthinkable had happened. Twice, the small gray creature had scurried up the wall and ventured out across the ceiling. Siri lay beneath the grimy mesh of the mosquito net, watching the lizard’s third attempt.
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