The Unhappiness of a Marriage

My friend was on his way home from a wedding when he saw some strange creatures in the road. Two white goats, two rabbits and two owls were looking at an unseen void. The animals weren't looking at him, the car or the woman next to him. His attention was captured by two men on bikes chasing him from behind. When they managed to intercept him and signal for him to pull over, they flashed their headlights directly onto the car. They asked him to glance back at the passenger seat. What he saw nearly caused him to lose consciousness. Instead of the woman with whom he had been talking for nearly 40 minutes, they lay a stack of hay tightly bound with ropes shaped like