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Mother's Instinct
Jul. 21st, 2011 05:11 pmSometimes it's probably as well that John is home with the girls. HE got to field today's call that Anneliese had been bitten by one of her classmates. He was reasonable about it. These things do happen, after all. Especially when you're dealing with Special Needs.
MY reaction was a bit less pragmatic. And a bit more Kipling-esque. Mother Wolf-like, in fact. Closer to this:
And it is I, Raksha [The Demon], who answers. The man's cub is mine, Lungri--mine to me! He shall not be killed. He shall live to run with the Pack and to hunt with the Pack; and in the end, look you, hunter of little naked cubs--frog-eater-- fish-killer--he shall hunt thee! Now get hence, or by the Sambhur that I killed (I eat no starved cattle), back thou goest to thy mother, burned beast of the jungle, lamer than ever thou camest into the world! Go!"
Father Wolf looked on amazed. He had almost forgotten the days when he won Mother Wolf in fair fight from five other wolves, when she ran in the Pack and was not called The Demon for compliment's sake. Shere Khan might have faced Father Wolf, but he could not stand up against Mother Wolf, for he knew that where he was she had all the advantage of the ground, and would fight to the death.
I hope she at least gave the little snot a bloody nose for his/her trouble. :-(
MY reaction was a bit less pragmatic. And a bit more Kipling-esque. Mother Wolf-like, in fact. Closer to this:
And it is I, Raksha [The Demon], who answers. The man's cub is mine, Lungri--mine to me! He shall not be killed. He shall live to run with the Pack and to hunt with the Pack; and in the end, look you, hunter of little naked cubs--frog-eater-- fish-killer--he shall hunt thee! Now get hence, or by the Sambhur that I killed (I eat no starved cattle), back thou goest to thy mother, burned beast of the jungle, lamer than ever thou camest into the world! Go!"
Father Wolf looked on amazed. He had almost forgotten the days when he won Mother Wolf in fair fight from five other wolves, when she ran in the Pack and was not called The Demon for compliment's sake. Shere Khan might have faced Father Wolf, but he could not stand up against Mother Wolf, for he knew that where he was she had all the advantage of the ground, and would fight to the death.
I hope she at least gave the little snot a bloody nose for his/her trouble. :-(
