and the thunder sounds, and the beasts are roused from their slumber, every beast of the field rises up in anger and fury, the red and the black and the green and the yellow and the striped snakes invade homes, the bees swarm, the wasps swarm, the bears come down from the hills and attack men in concerted groups, mountain lions and savanna lions invade towns and villages, the men retreat to the cities, the women and children retreat to the cities, they fortify themselves against animal attack, they build great walls to keep out the beasts, but elephants storm the walls, snakes and scorpions come and slither under the walls and attack, every beast of the field invades the cities where the men and women and children have retreated to, the elephants and bears break down the walls, the lions rush the armed lines of men, the rats and the rattlesnakes infest the encampments of the armies of men, the alligators and the bears and the elephants charge the trenches, for the thunder has sounded, the beasts are aroused out of their stupor, piranhas have infested the rivers and seek out only human flesh, poisonous snakes and spiders seek to kill only human beings, the animals move in concert, they retreat all at once when their battle lines are breached, they move in for the kill when victory comes their way, they move by an unseen commander, they are under the influence of an unseen leader, the thunder has sounded, they no longer sleep, and the men are driven to the cold places of the earth, the men who are left alive are driven to the poles, where the only beasts that can kill them are the whales and the polar bears, they retreat to the cold places and are driven to the far corners of the earth, and everything has become inverted and wild, everything is upside-down and crazy, there is no safe place left on the face of the earth, the beasts have taken back the earth,