The girl did not know whether the Little People were good or bad (and neither did Tengo). When night came, the Little People would enter this world through the corpse, and they would go back to the other side when dawn broke. The girl could speak to them. They taught her how to make an air chrysalis.

    “Have you ever met the Little People?” Tengo asked.

    Fuka-Eri stared at him vaguely, as though she could not grasp the meaning of his question.

    “Have you ever actually seen them?” Tengo rephrased his question.

    “Yes,” Fuka-Eri said.

    “How many of the Little People did you see?”

    “I don’t know. More than I could count on my fingers.”

    “But not just one.”

    “Their numbers can sometimes increase and sometimes decrease, but there is never just one.”

    “The way you depicted them in Air Chrysalis.”

    Fuka-Eri nodded.

Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

Bizarre photo of a fish in a jellyfish

The bizarre occurrence was captured in the waters off Byron Bay, New South Wales, by photographer Tim Samuel. "I have never seen anything like it," said Tim, who was snorkeling with local videographer Franny Plumridge (pictured in the top image) at the time.

"It seemed completely trapped in there, like it had somehow managed to swim inside and then was unable to back itself out. The fish was able to propel the jellyfish forward and controlled its movement to an extent, the jellyfish threw it off balance though and they would wobble around, and sometimes get stuck doing circles.

"I contemplating freeing the fish as I felt bad for it, but in the end decided to just let nature run its course, which was a difficult decision for me to make."

Associate Professor Ian Tibbetts, a fish biologist at the Center for Marine Science at the University of Queensland, says that while it's difficult to tell from photos alone, the fish looks like it could be a juvenile trevally, which are known to seek shelter among the stingers of certain jellyfish. In this case, the situation may have taken a surprise turn for the small fish, which ended up inside the jellyfish.