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Fable
It was 12 in the afternoon, in the hot deserted region of Chihuahua, Mexico. The weather reached the hottest temperature of the history. This couldn’t stop the daily routine of the hard working ants. Each morning the ants would wake up early to get their shores done, which include the look after young baby ants, search for food and protect the beautiful Queen Lucia who was in charge of giving birth to other lovely ants. There were many dangers that could jeopardize the colony’s happiness, like the mighty crow, Jack that spied the ants from the skies. Every single ant in the colony loved Queen Lucia, which was the loving mother of all ants, except one greedy little ant, named Eva. Even though little Eva felt jealousy and greed towards the Queen, she always dreamt of being the Queen. But she knew that she had to complete her duties. In one of Eva’s daily search for food, she felt tired and not so enthusiastic like her other friends. While the other worker ants search for leaves to take to the colony, Eva sat on the ground watching the other ants do their job. As the ants moved towards the colony, Eva was left behind all by her self. That’s when the terrible crow, Jack took advantage and decided to approach to Eva. The enormous crow went towards her silently, and surprised her.
“What is a little ant doing here by her own?” asked Jack.
“Ah! Please don’t eat me, please don’t!” Eva shouted with panic.
“Eat you? I don’t want to eat you, don’t you worry little ant, I want to be your friend.”
“But all of the other ants say you are evil, and that we should never speak to a crow, but you don’t look evil at all! She responded.
“You see? You don’t have to worry, I just feel so lonely and I want to speak to someone.”
“I am tired of all of the ants being afraid of me just because the Queen tell them I’m evil.” The crow continued.
“I’m tired of the Queen too” said the furious ant.
At this moment the crow that has planned to attack the Queen Lucia noticed the bad intentions of Eva and asked to her
“Would you like to see the Queen defeated?”
“Well, certainly, yes” The ant responded with doubt
“Why don’t we work together” proposed Jack, and the ant accepted.
After two days of planning the attack when everything was ready and they were motivated, Jack will have royal banquet and Eva will be the next Queen of the colony, it was time to act. At the beginning of the process to defeat the Queen, Eva stopped and said to Jack:
“Hey wait!!!”
“What’s wrong?” said Jack a little surprised
“I don’t want to do this” said the ant convinced she was about to do something really bad.
“I mean, I only have 40 days of life, I have a very short one and I only have one purpose in it, to work for the other ants as a family” continued Eva
The crow was in shock.
“You should do something with your life too and live on the name of God”
By Marcela Garza
and Amador
