BEING A LEADER AND THE ANIMAL KINGDOM

I was stunned by the sudden confusion I had witnessed all around me. People scattered everywhere and all got panicked. Then, I heard an elder woman commanded a servant girl to carry me. We needed to escape, the roaring floods were coming.

Flash floods were everywhere.

The servant girl carried me through her arms. She was so strong, carrying me all through out, running away from that place.

Then we arrived in a place with a long line of people, midway. There's a rope placed horizontally above us, we needed to climb up the rope and to slide down to a horizontal line going across to the other side, it was like a zip-line. 

In front of us was like a wide deep turbulent body of water.

The servant brought me down to the ground this time and assisted me in climbing up the rope.

 Afterwards, she then bade goodbye, and left me there. She needed to go back to help the others.

I  was the very last in line. There were many people ahead of me in the zip-line, both men and women were there who were all eager to save their lives. 

A big-built man was in the very front of me; he was so tired while hanging, holding on the rope.

 Each one was waiting for each turn to go across to the other side.

 But it wasn't easy, many grew tired  already and they seemed cannot hold on anymore due to the very long hours of hanging onto it. 

They slowly felt terrified, scared they might fall to the deepest turbulent water below them, until the line froze already. They stopped midway, hesitating to go.

The man in front of me had reached his maximum limits and he just let go. He fell and went down below.

I just saw him slowly falling down, in a slow motion, giving out a loud cry, until he wasn't heard any more. He faded.

I was determined and wanted to survive! I didn't let fear overcome me!

On the spur of the moment, without any further ado, with all my might, I jumped over the line, and successfully leaped across to the other side. 

I courageously made it! Ignoring the danger of falling down. I took the risk!

All of them, men and women were shocked by what they've witnessed. 

They hardly knew that the last lady (Me) in the line could do it! 

They didn't dare to do it before.

Then, slowly they followed me. They tried their best to go across towards me, imitating my action!

I climbed and stood on top of the hill. 

I watched all of them slowly reaching above beside me. I motivated them to persist climbing despite the sufferings they went through in a long time. 

They respected me.

After seeing that all of them successfully reached the top, I rested.

Later on, I continued walking to find for a resting place for everyone. 

I found a small hut in a distance.

I went inside it, and no one was there. 

I found some stuff like cooking utensils and some raw food to cook.

Without any hesitation, I prepared it all and cook it, for our meals. Then, some of the women came in to help me as well. Together we cooked until it's done. We prepared the table and sat together.

We ate and they respected me as their leader, following everything I say.

While they're resting, some of them went down to a certain village. They never knew who lived there and what kind of people they were. They happened to break one of their rules unintentionally. The chief of the village was very angry and he obstructed them. With a loud sound he roared. The chief was like a WILD BEAST!

That village was filled with unknown creatures that all of them seemed like wild animals in the woods. There were different beasts in front of them.

In terrible fear, all of them ran fast away. They hurriedly went back to the small hut where I stayed. But they were chased by those wild beasts.

"Lady please help us!", they cried as they came in. So  I hurriedly got up and went outside. 

I  observed that there were many beasts slowly approaching them.

 My people only heard the different sound of the roaring animals, except me. They cannot understand the language of the BEASTS. They were like howling sounds only to their ears not words.

 But the beasts stopped in front of me.

They all understood me and I understood all of them also.  

Our  talks went smoothly.

The great lion uttered this, "No one dares to trespass on my own property!" He was angry, the chief of the ANIMAL VILLAGE, it's like an ANIMAL KINGDOM!

I could understand them, only me. Those were his words but my people cannot hear that.

"I apologize, on behalf of my people. They hardly knew you are living there and they just went on strolling to get acquainted with this new place. They have no intentions to destroy your peace.", uttered by me. I pleaded for forgiveness on behalf of my people.

As we went on, the beasts and me got acquainted with each other. Then we all became friends, agreed with each other's rules and helped one another; so we lived together in that place peacefully, both the humans and the animals!

3rd October 2018

(by Anne)