Bijesh Nagesh's Blog - Posts Tagged "lies"

The hyena summoned the vulture to its court and said, "We both need to eat, so let's come to an understanding, you and me." The hyena and the vulture brainstormed a solution that would enable them to catch and eat prey of a certain rebellious nature. The predators refused to understand or accept the need for their prey to have their own rights or identity. The hyena knew that to eat well it first needed to intimidate its prey. So it asked the vulture to act along in a grand scheme. The vulture then said to the hyena’s prey, "If I do not give away your location from the air, the hyena will find my nest and eat my eggs." The hyena, now well ahead of the game, said to the vulture’s prey, "I am merely asking the vulture to keep track of you lot so I can make sure it does not eat more than its fair share. You, after all, elected me to govern this portion of the Savannah, so let me be your guide and guard." By the time the prey caught on to the secret pretence enacted by the hyena and the vulture, the predators had set their agreements in stone and called it the New Law of the Forest. Then, as if by fate, a sandstorm slapped the Savannah, distracting all the prey from what was really going on.