or some time, a fox has been been sleeping in our garden. One evening I decide to follow it across the fields at the back of our house and into the forest. I step inside 10 metres, then 10 more – just enough to feel a shiver of adrenaline before turning on my heels. After that first visit, I venture a little further each evening. As soon as the house is asleep, I open my bedroom window, slip behind the hedge and cross the field to the big trees and the bustle of the animals.
For cooking, I use only a small aluminium frying pan and a pot for boiling water. I decide to follow an omnivorous but vegetarian-inclined diet. I cannot imagine living in a natural habitat and eating the wild animals that live there, even though nature is obviously overflowing with predators. I buy tins of food and hide them at the foot of a tree, under a pile of branches and dead leaves. Unfortunately, a few days later, wild boar discover my hoard.
One fine morning a roe deer, the one that I would come to call by the French name Daguet, crosses my path and comes to a standstill a few steps away from me. Very slowly, I crouch down. I am fascinated by his big, shiny black eyes. We stare at one another for a few minutes, which seem to last for hours. He turns away and plunges into the undergrowth.Soon afterwards, I’m eating from a bramble that provides a good supply of small leaves, slightly withered but very nourishing nonetheless.
Suddenly a bark can be heard in the distance. It must be Six Points, another roe deer I come across regularly. Daguet runs off at such incredible speed that I find myself all on my own like a fool in the middle of the oak wood. I find the answers by observing Daguet. Roe deer rest day and night for one- or two-hour cycles. I realise that sleeping at night isn’t compulsory, as long as you rest from time to time. To do that, I crouch down, with my right hand on my left knee and my left hand on my right knee and my head between my arms. I decide to base the rhythm of my life on his; except that, since my stomach has just the one chamber, when he chews the cud, I meditate instead.
Daguet retreats with a series of little hops. I’m ready to follow him but I’m worried about Star, who doesn’t seem to be in the best shape. I have deep respect for this very intelligent little female. She lies down again. A few moments later, visibly weakened, she struggles up again, her whole body trembling, takes a step forward and then stops.
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