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Fable: "The other side"
From the beginning of the times, there was a tree were all animals lived, you couldn’t see where it ended, and you will need 80 days to go around it. There, all the animals lived and made their caves. The gods told the animals “Live in peace, share what you have, and everything will be alright”. Years passed in peace and everybody was happy, until the gods send a drought, the rabbits “Fortunately we have water for several weeks and we’ll survive”, but the lions didn’t had the means to survive, so they thought “The only way to survive is getting all the water available before anyone else and stealing the water from those little rabbits to be sure, they don’t need it anyways, they’re little enough to live with a drop a day”, so the lions made a plan to steal the water, one lion said “We’ll sneak where the rabbits are, and then silently we’ll get all the water we can, the others go to the river and get all the water you see”. Finally they arrived and stole all the water and the rabbits died, and the lions pretended to be astonished of the dead of the rabbits, and the river was dry as a dessert.
Some days after, a strong winter whipped the world with tons of snow and ice, and the lions said “With this chilly winter we’ll surely die”, so they started killing bears without anyone noticing, so they could get their fur to make hotter their homes. A little time after, there were no bears anymore, but the lions survived and the world was as cold as hell.
Some days after a famine came and the lions again were not prepared for something like this again, so they thought “We’ll have to steal the food from the pumas” so they said “We’ll make a tunnel that goes all the way to the other side where the pumas are, and then silently we’ll get all the water we can” so the lions started digging and digging days and days, some of them were almost dying, but they kept digging and digging and digging. One lion said “We’ll be there by tomorrow; I can see the end of the tree”. The tunnel was hundreds of meters long, but they finally were near their objective. And finally the lions were there, some of them peered to the sun, but the tunnel collapsed and the door was closed. And when one lion saw the other side by a small hole, he realized that the rabbits, bears and pumas were happily dancing in the sun with plenty of water, cool weather and food, different from what they had at the other side, dry, cold and without food, so the remaining lions went outside and saw nothing from what they saw in the door, so one lion said “We were left behind in a world of pain and suffering”.
Steve Andrew D'lamora
Miriam Villareal
