Funibuni at gate of the new world!
The road took them to a big gate, and as they reached it the road stopped rolling so suddenly that the silence the hushing loud whisper of that yellow sand left lingering in the air as it paused, was the intensive kind. The kind of silence that is more silent than noise is loud.
The gate was big and said ‘BuldigeR HamU’ on the top, in big letters carved from wood and covered by moss and a strong feel of Oldness. They all stared at it for a while as the big trees around them started to whistle quietly, in that low, ominious voice they had when the wind was lazy.
Funibuni felt the fur in the back of his neck rise, he shivered a bit. He thought about Hamu- Hamu- World and Buldigerhamu and was wildly astonished about the fact that he, Funibuni, a streetbear from Hamu- Hamu- World, was at the Buldigerhamu gate heading forward. He had never thought of coming here. He had never thought of going anywhere from the place, come on, he was a hamuhamuian, and hamuhamuians didn’t do travelling.
What was he doing here?
He felt confused and…scared.
He looked at Hunikko-Bunikko-Bear, the bear who stared at the big plate-like things up on each side of the gate, the bear with funny ears.
- Yeah, he thought, I remember a time when things were that simple…I used to look at that Hunikko-Bunikko-Bear and all I thought was that he had funny ears…and suddenly he realised that he didn’t see that anymore. Nuh, he saw…he saw the bear differently. He looked at him now and saw a ninja brother, a bear who was always getting sick and dying, a bear who answered his randomest questions and a bear who was so familiar to his eyes that it was like looking in a mirror or something. Or more, sometimes when he did see a raflection of his own, pale face smewhere he was almost surprised because the picture did not having funny ears. Do you guys know what I mean? It felt like the bear was…some kind of unseparetable part of all existance. Like the sun and the street and the mountains – there was always sun, street and mountains, and there was always Hunikko-Bunikko-Bear.
For some strange reason that made him feel all right, now at the gate of this unknown world that only rumours and strange stories told about.


