Elephant's chase

That was a summer early morning, I was ready to go into the forest for my field work, and I was following my field assistant. He is a tribe and he knows about the elephants or any other wild animal’s arrival by the sound and the smell. The peacock call welcomed us to the forest; there were various hues and smells of flowers which easily divert once attention. As usual I was counting the birds and recording them and also noted the plants for the flower and fruit production. My field work was over by 10.30 am. We both had our breakfast near a river and was ready to go back home. Suddenly I got an idea, to go more into the forest which we never explored. The assistant said lets go for 3 or 4 kilometres and come back, I nodded my head and said no, no anna, lets walk till 10 kms. He also finally agreed and we went inside exploring various butterflies, birds, huge trees and some wild flowers. We would have walked more than 6 kms, anna said enough Aruna, we should stop here and lets go back. I was over excited and said I can hear a creek, lets go and there and sit near the creek and go back, he said no its dangerous there may be wild elephants in that area, but I consoled him somehow and we started walking. After 10 minutes suddenly he stopped me by action, his eyes said that there is some danger very near. He whispered me; there is an elephant nearby, lets run. I really didn’t understand the seriousness and I was not tensed, suddenly there was a trumpet, I was really afraid and I saw the tusker within 15metres. I didn’t know what to do, anna said let’s run. We started running and the tusker also saw us and it started chasing us. We reached our starting place and didn’t even turn back to see whether he still chases us. Fortunately he didn’t, he left us half way and went back. Believe it or not, we reached that place within 20 minutes, but while going it took 3 hours to walk, but now we came running so fast to save our lives. From that time I obeyed anna’s words and I successfully completed that field work.