Hippo enters with documents.
He looks at the pink puddle, at me, puzzled.
- Where is Henry?
I point to the puddle
- He ate a peach and disappeared
- How? What? ... Is this a joke, a prank? - he babbles
The papers fall from his hands and scatter across the living room floor. He doesn't even look at them. I've never seen him so confused. I'm getting really scared.
But suddenly the puddle starts to move and some kind of body forms from it. But it is not Uncle Henry, it is a beautiful strong woman, a black panther.
-What happened, did I pass out? - the panther asks me. -You made me coffee, thank you - she stretches out her paw to the cup, but does not take the coffee. She begins to examine her paw...