While Brett watches, eyes sparkling with enchantment, you keep your voice steady as you describe everything—until you realize that in your haste, you forget to turn off your equipment when you rushed to get away from Vance and his cohorts. Now you're too low on power to record. You'll have to rectify that later by recreating from memory what you witnessed, but of course some details will be missing.
Leaving the waterfall at last, you and Brett continue to trace the river downstream, coming to a broad, treeless plain where you won't need to fear predators hiding behind every oversize fern and ginkgo. There you make camp. That evening after dinner, you review your film from earlier in the day.