"A Sound of Thunder" Vocabulary Vignette

There was once a man who lived in a cavernous hole on a mountain. He had taloned like nails and he looked like a caveman because he had been living inside that hole for so long. Since he hadn't spoken to another human in a long time he began to hallucinate and see salamanders and began to say paradox things. One day he decided to go to the bottom of the mountain which he hadn't done in 30 years. As he went down the mountain the path was so rough that the rocks poked his feet and left blisters on his toes. He had to walk warily because the mountain was not fit for humans to walk on. The merest wrong move and he would plunge down 600 feet to the ground. He was very uneducated that he would often wonder that if he fell if he would resilient back to the top, but of course he never tried it. It was late at night when he reached the bottom, the moon was up and there were no stars in the sky. He found that to be strange but then he saw that there was an aurora. He hadn't seen anything like that in so long that he just stood and stared at it for so long. For that moment he felt that sense of life that he was looking for. All of a sudden it began teeming with deadly insects all around him and he just stood staring at the sky while the insects punctured him all around his body. He began to quaver but still stared at the sky, he finally fell to the ground, closed his eyes, and accepted his fate.