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Fable Two
Lord Vivec and the Contentious Beasts
shalk and a kagouti were strutting back and forth in a foyada, casting aspersions of one another’s looks.
²“You are the ugliest creature alive,” the shalk told the kagouti. ³“No, you are the ugliest creature alive!” the kagouti told the shalk.
⁴For each thought himself most handsome, and the other most ugly. ⁵Then Lord Vivec chanced by, and settled their dispute.
⁶“No, you both are the ugliest creatures alive! I will not have my pleasant sojourn spoiled by your unseemly squabbling.”
⁷So he dealt them both mighty blows, shattering their skulls, and silencing their argument, and went merrily upon his way. ⁸And thus Lord Vivec proved that ugliness is as much in one’s manner as in one’s appearance.