The Branches Creaking Ominously Underneath Me

It's amazing that we're both here, when you think about it.  These sort of temporary islands, where enough flotsam accumulates to make a little shelter, and it all hangs together long enough to accumulate dirt and grow plants, well, they're relatively rare.  And for them to be colonized by animals is even rarer.  At most, you get insects, perhaps a bird or two.  Maybe a turtle.  But mammals?  Not a chance.  To find two mammals, well, you have to admit: that's verging on the miraculous.

That one of the two is a bear is, I think, simply evidence of divine sadism.