They knew it immediately. Navarro climbed out of the pit and joined Maria at the railing. “We were lucky,” she said. “A few more hours, maybe less, and that pipe would’ve blown. And it’s connected to the biogas plant across the road—that’s a lot of compressed fuel.”
Maria stared at the elephants, her heart softening. “They knew before anyone else.” “They felt the vibrations,” Navarro said. “Animals like elephants? Their feet are built for sensing seismic shifts. They detected the pressure long before our sensors would have.”