Cruelty

Madonna was sitting on the edge of a long table, one like they show you in movies of royal families. But the table was empty, and so were the chairs around it. There was someone else in the room with Madonna who was looking in another way, at the painting of a lion killing the buffalo, and her red blood floating down from her black skin on the ground. 

The man was wearing a long coat and seemed to play with that painting inside his mind, enjoying the moment that was captured in that painting. After a long-awaited silence, finally, he spoke, 

"Do you know? That buffalo is way stronger than the lion" he paused, while Madonna didn't say anything, just kept looking at him with curiosity. 

"But, she is the one who dies most of the time in this fight with the lion" he paused again and look closely into the eyes of the lion, he seems to find some insight and smirked about it, and continues,