09-06-2016, 01:50 PM
They think she cares to whom they pledge allegiance. Hah.
The patter up, one after another climbing her mountain, forcing even their young ones to breathe the thin air and suffer a climb so strenuous as to make grown horses wheeze.
What do they need so badly?
"Ask for what?" says the wind and the earth at their feet. "What do you come to ask for when you should be here to beg?" She is as benevolent as she is prideful, and to reward them only for making a steep climb would make her a fool as well. No, she decides, they must plead their case.
The patter up, one after another climbing her mountain, forcing even their young ones to breathe the thin air and suffer a climb so strenuous as to make grown horses wheeze.
What do they need so badly?
"Ask for what?" says the wind and the earth at their feet. "What do you come to ask for when you should be here to beg?" She is as benevolent as she is prideful, and to reward them only for making a steep climb would make her a fool as well. No, she decides, they must plead their case.