Daffy Giraffy

Daffy Thunder never hurries. Ever. He just stands there — tall and calm and steady — looking out over everything the others can't see from down below.

It'll work out, he says sometimes. Not as an empty phrase. As something he can actually see from up here.

A giraffe's heart weighs ten kilos and is sixty centimeters long. It has to pump blood upward two meters to reach the brain. It is the strongest heart of any land animal on earth.

Around Daffy Thunder you breathe out. What felt big and difficult shrinks a little. You lift your gaze and see a little further ahead than you did before.