We had a deal. We even shook on it.
I am currently 2 days behind.
I do not like these things. I have no particular reason why that is the case. I simply, plainly, do not like these things.
I do not know if it is just what they look like, with their perpetual water-coated look.
I do not know if it is the fact that wherever they traverse leaves a touch goo that dries out into a tell-tale technicolour trail that betrays their presence.
I do not know if it is eons of evolution passed down in my genes that knows these slimy little things are often harbingers of some illness or other lurking around the corner.
I do know that I like sprinkling salt on them and watching what follows. Just a tiny bit of salt at a time. Sometimes sprinkling a circle of salt around them and just waiting. Funny how ordinary table salt that we sprinkle on our food with such delight bodes entirely differently for such a species.
Sometimes I wonder if that is why intelligent life from beyond our solar system has yet to make contact - maybe one such extraterrestrial species is one such as this slug, watching in pure terror as this earth-bound species calling themselves "humans" so readily and joyfully consumes the very mineral that is their doom.
"They even mine it," I imagine their little ones saying to each other in the playground, trading their scariest stories. "They mine it and sell it to each other, and they sprinkle it on their food and eat it! They eat it! And they are unhappy when their food does not have it! Imagine!"
I imagine many things.
This one was lucky. I had my camera in my hand, instead of a container of salt. So I took its portrait.
Maybe it will send these pictures to its extraterrestrial relatives.
A picture a day. Rules are simple: We can pick photos from any previous occasions, but it can only be thrice in a week - the remaining 4 days have to be images taken within that very day.
We shook hands on it.
"Alaaa! Excuse me!" I hear people's voices when I read their texts. "Wapi picha?"
We were to start on Sunday.
Obviously, today is not Sunday.
So I have 2 days to catch up.
Game on, Victoria Komu.