The Friend You Don't Have to Talk To
In his story, the person César really opens up to is Priya, a spectacled langur, a botanist in a nearby forest. They met at a coffee stall at six in the morning, both early risers, both with a book at an hour when almost no one else is awake. They started sharing a table out of habit, and discovered they could spend an hour in silence without a single wasted moment. She talks to him about trees; he teaches her to tell metals apart by the sound they make when you strike them.







