Disbelief
His colleagues didn’t believe him. He must have been messing with them. There must have been a funny-looking piece of wood in the trunk. Another colleague gathered the courage to take a look and he was startled as well. One by one the loggers looked into the trunk and all were shocked and confused afterwards.
When they had all looked into the tree, they turned silent for a while. What were they supposed to say? What now? Of course they couldn’t just continue working. They had never seen anything like it and would never see anything like it again. This day had taken on a very strange turn.