About

Many years ago, Walter met a bird-head man on a mountaintop. They talked for a time in what Walter recognizes in retrospect as a test, not a conversation. Once satisfied, the bird-head man directed him to, "Show your inside world to the outside world." When Walter asked why, the bird-head man merely gestured vaguely at the beauty before them and would say no more.

Walter has since followed that advice, and whenever he wonders why, he thinks back to the piercing gaze of that big yellow eye and gets back to work.