The migration across the plains, from spring to autumn, happened year after year.
The pitch-black wildebeest clustered together, creating a conspicuous wristwatch shape on the yellow-brown earth.
On the opposite bank, the surging wildebeest herd formed the most substantial, most crucial soul dial of this wristwatch, while the troops of wildebeest coming and going on one side became the perfect strap of this watch.
Finding an outlet, the dial's components spurted out en masse, crossing the vast river, hurtling towards the far bank.
The entire Tana River was turbid with silt and reeked of blood, as one wildebeest after another charged out of the dust, plunged into the river, then leapt from the splashes onto the shore.
The billowing yellow dust trailed along the wildebeest's fluid-like muscles, and the murky water droplets slid down the creased textures.
The scene of a myriad of animals stampeding made even the earth tremble.
