Mouse

A couple searches the West Coast bush for a wasps’ nest. He is a tracker of signals, but can’t seem to read what she wants. She cuts back a fallen tree to keep the fertile natural world at bay but when she comes across a dying mouse on her floor it feels like mortality itself is taunting her. Faced with the small animals suffering they don’t know what to do. She suggests stepping on its head but he prefers to cover it up.