TOME 10 PART 155; THE FATE OF THOSE WHO RUN FROM MASTER TO MASTER; THE PARABLE OF THE MONITOR LIZARD AND THE SNAKE

TOME 10 PART 155; THE FATE OF THOSE WHO RUN FROM MASTER TO MASTER; THE PARABLE OF THE MONITOR LIZARD AND THE SNAKE

DAGARA PROVERB;

ISAIAH 14;29

"People Of Philistia, the rod that beat you is broken but you have no reason to be glad. When one snake dies, a worse one comes in its place. A Snake's egg hatches a flying dragon".

 

DISCLAIMER: This story is purely a work of fiction. Any relation to any characters living or dead is purely coincidental.

 

STORY TIME…

Narrator: Once upon a time…

Audience: Time time…

Narrator: There was once a Kingdom in the Woods filled with many reptiles who had a Monitor Lizard for a king.

Audience: A Monitor Lizard?!

Narrator: Yes, a Monitor Lizard so you know this was the sort of King whose Kingdom was under 24hour 7days a week 52weeks a year, 365(1/4) days a year surveillance.

Audience: Ei! What kind of king is this?

Narrator: This story is about how sometimes something we think is bad for us may be protecting us from something far worse.

Audience: What do you mean?

Narrator: Anyway, the people said, "we do not want you Monitor Lizard for a King".

Audience: What did the Monitor Lizard do?

Narrator: The Monitor Lizard replied "As long as I am a Monitor Lizard and there are scales on my body, I shall not abdicate authority". So the reptiles knowing full well that the Monitor Lizard's natural enemy was a certain Viper decided to ask the Viper to be their new King instead.

Audience: A Viper?!

Narrator: The Viper said, "I will help you get rid of the Monitor Lizard but after that I better not hear any complaints about my rulership".

Audience: Don't accept!

Narrator: The reptiles accepted.

Audience: No!

Narrator: The Viper did his dread deed under the cover of darkness and by sunrise, the Monitor Lizard was no more. The Viper became the new king.

Audience: Those reptiles are fools.

Narrator: Every night, a reptile would disappear under the cover of dark and no remains would be found in the morning regardless of how many reptiles hunted for the missing.

THE END.

Audience: What happened to the Viper! Tell us the rest.

Narrator: The rest of the story is subject to interpretation. The morale of this story is sometimes, a lesser evil fills a void to prevent a greater evil from filling it. The fate of those who betray one master to swear allegiance to another whose essence they cannot verify is what the outcome of the story is about so no…this story does not have a happy ending.