A monster?
Slowly, some color returned to his face. His breathing also calmed down. His colleagues’ prying eyes were all aimed at him. What had he seen? The man was silent. He just stared at the tree, his eyes wide open. It took a while before he could tell what he had seen.
His colleagues were getting very impatient and started shaking him. They wanted to know what he had seen now! When the man finally pulled himself together and he could speak again, he said he had seen a monster. Or a beast. Or a combination of both.