Talk:Night Whispers/@comment-31077845-20170302034757

Yeah, I guess my problem is that the narrator describes the experience in a way that could only be anatomically possible for a human. Crickets don't run and can't trip because they leap, they don't have voices as their "song" is a result of them rubbing their legs together, they can't look over their shoulders or get cut on their shoulders because they have no shoulders, can't move their heads that way, and can't really get "cut" as much as "crushed" since they have exoskeletons, they don't sweat, they don't have pupils to dilate as they instead have compound eyes, and, of course, they don't possess individual conscious thought.

So yeah, I didn't expect a cricket because 90% of the things described wouldn't be possible for a simple insect. Heck, even a mouse would be better. At least it's a mammal and actually runs and...honestly I'm not even sure if an owl would bother with a cricket as the energy expended to catch it would be greater than what it would get by eating it. They mostly eat rodents.