“Am I Alive?”
After moments of lying still the crow shook, as if from a stupor and looked all puzzled. Vali’s back was turned to it and half on its back, it just kept staring at Vali, surprised that it was still alive and quite unable to do anything else because the entire ordeal of struggling in the water and trying not to be eaten by a bear drained out all the energy this crow had. What was happening? And this was the question even the spectators seem to be asking.