Two Pigeons (Od & Ev) and The Lizards
The two pigeons, Od & Ev were
digging holes into the old trunk from the oldest tree that ever lived in
Pigeonland. Od, who had been born in the Land of Lizards, learned
how to crawl and to shake the head whenever an idea was fronted or statement
made.
One fateful day, Ev was surprised by a visitor who only
arrived crawling to Pigeonland. At once, he saw him & invited Od
to help him dig into the old trunk. Od had entered Pigeonland crawling after
he'd managed to defeat the Lizards by jumping away. Upon reaching Pigeonland,
Od had resumed his old ways as was in the Land of The Lizards. So, Ev inquired
why he crawled and where he'd come from. At once, Od explained where he came
from and offered all directions. Before Od could explain the reason for his
crawling, Ev flew immediately to survey the Land of Lizards. To Ev's
dismay, he found out that it was the same Land.
That is to say, Pigeons & Lizards were in the same land. Ev
even saw some lizards roaming for weak insects to devour! After his
discoveries, he flew back to Od & made it clear to him that that was the
same land.
It turns out from Od's narrative that he had been born by a pigeon
who was hunted down by hunters as soon as Od was born. Lizards witnessed that
hurtful moment and they considered pigeons a great diet. Pigeons were like
chicken to humans. Od was lucky for having been too young to present a great
diet to Lizards.
So, Lizards in their general meeting decided that they would bring
up Od in their ways, and finally should he learns new ways, they would devour
him. So they taught Od their ways of movement. They would crawl when walking,
standing, or running. Od also followed the same ideas until one day when he
managed to crawl on top of a tree-like any other Lizard. Up there, he failed to
handle a branch well & fell. When he fell, the norm was to wake up if still
alive, shake thy head & run without looking back.
On this occasion, Od was very much afraid of death so that he
adjusted his tiny feet and performed a jump, thereby landing without a fall.
Since every day a team of Lizards was assigned to spy on Od, they ran quickly
to the Lizard's leadership & reported what they'd witnessed.
Without wasting time, Lizards organized a general meeting and
brought in Od to answer to them why he had adopted a new skill that was an
abomination to the Lizard's fraternity. Od did not have any defense but only
that he was avoiding a terrible landing.
At once, Lizards shouted, "he should go to the
saucepan." This they shouted over 10 times, yet Od did not understand. It
was until a knife was brought, he was caught and they started plucking off his
feathers that he realized that he was going to be slaughtered like other
strange Pigeons he used to witness before.
At once, he shook heavily and overpowered the Two Lizards who had
been assigned to finish him off as was The Norm. Od escaped and to his big surprised,
all Lizards young & old, leaders and followers were crawl-running after him
shouting "catch him, we must eat him today." In fact, even unhatched
Lizards in the eggs were making funny noise and eggs were rolling after
him.
Unfortunately for Lizards, Od's new skill was not for jokes. He
started by running and eventually jumping. At first, he would jump from ground
to ground, but the Lizards surrounded him quickly and he had to think around a
new escape strategy.
He saw a nearby tree branch, jumped into it and it worked. Lizards
quickly climbed too and Od tried another branch, which was pretty easy to his
discovery. Just like that Od jumped from branch to branch until Lizards could
no longer be seen or their chanting noises heard.
That was when he met Ev, the newly found friend.
After narrating the story to Ev, he was even lectured more on his
abilities, abilities way beyond he could comprehend. Lizards had known those
abilities but could not let Od know, for they had future plans for him.
Od became friends with Ev and a new life started for him.
In this story, are you an Od, an Ev, or a Lizard? 🙏🏽
