The Goose Guards (2010)
The Goose Guards
“They clacked their yellow beaks at me and hissed their hatred.
But that day I smiled and licked my lips. “Tomorrow, my feathered friends. Tomorrow, we’ll be rescued by Lord Furius and then I will eat you. That’ll be nice … for me … won’t it?”
I walked off, laughing, and on my way I passed the tearful Fabia going to give the geese their last-ever meal.
The head priest Marius didn’t shout at me in class that day. He taught us the right way to sacrifice a goat.
“It is wrong to kill an animal if it... doesn’t want to be killed,” he told us. “What you must do is hold out some food. The animal will stretch out its neck to take it. That is a sign that it wants to have its throat cut. Then you cut it.”
Fabia was silent.
“Will it work with the geese, sir?” I asked eagerly, and I heard Fabia let out a small sob.
“Probably,” Marius sighed. “But I am not sure that we should be sacrificing the holy geese…”
“Of course we shouldn’t,” Fabia sniffled. “They’re Rome’s protectors.”MoreLess
But that day I smiled and licked my lips. “Tomorrow, my feathered friends. Tomorrow, we’ll be rescued by Lord Furius and then I will eat you. That’ll be nice … for me … won’t it?”
I walked off, laughing, and on my way I passed the tearful Fabia going to give the geese their last-ever meal.
The head priest Marius didn’t shout at me in class that day. He taught us the right way to sacrifice a goat.
“It is wrong to kill an animal if it... doesn’t want to be killed,” he told us. “What you must do is hold out some food. The animal will stretch out its neck to take it. That is a sign that it wants to have its throat cut. Then you cut it.”
Fabia was silent.
“Will it work with the geese, sir?” I asked eagerly, and I heard Fabia let out a small sob.
“Probably,” Marius sighed. “But I am not sure that we should be sacrificing the holy geese…”
“Of course we shouldn’t,” Fabia sniffled. “They’re Rome’s protectors.”MoreLess
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