Some thought it was a stunt. Just some juvenile app marketing thing for views or likes. Others, the believers, thought the Noah story was having a repeat performance right in Central Avenue. But as their numbers grew, no one laughed, and no one cried.
Everyone, the old and the young alike, silently looked in awe as the animals marched on.
A steady stream of simians, deer, rats, pigeons, horses, cats, pigs -- just every animal kept for a certain purpose seemed to have managed to escape its prison and walk around New York streets. An animal parade would be nothing to write home about if they were being handled or led in some sort of fashion.
But the animals walked alone. Not a sound in their beaks or jaws. Every species side by side with another that any other day would have meant a dance of prey and predator. In perfect formation, without a sound, the animals marched forth.
The UN headquarters were already visible in the horizon.