Library:Fragment from an Untitled Text

This story by Sindariya is part of the.

Fragment from an Untitled Text
(Date Unknown; Based on an Earlier Text, circa 1000 Years before the Cataclysm)

On a farm in [P...?], there lived a sow with her four piglets. The oldest was the biggest of the four, he always was the first when their mother called to feed them and last that left. The second was the strongest, she always ran around the farm and challenged the other young animals... to get stronger. The third was beautiful, and took care of [his skin with mud?]

But the last piglet was small, not beautiful or strong, and was very jealous of his siblings.

The jealous piglet started to [taunt?] his siblings and was clever enough to annoy them only when the mother sow was not watching. he told the oldest piglet that the farmer always slaughtered the biggest piglets first for their meat and that would be dead before season's end. He challenged the second in races and defeated her because he always cheated. He scratched the third with branches to ruin his beautiful skin.

The three other kept quiet...and hoped it would stop...

...did not tell their mother...

After a week they decided to take [matters?] in their own hooves. They started to chase the smallest around the whole farm. The other animals on the farm noticed the quarrel and the small piglet ran to them and squeaked for help.

The horse heard the cries and stomped on the biggest piglet, the dog bit the strongest piglet and the cat scratches the eyes out of the prettiest of the litter...

When the sow came, she found her oldest piglet with broken legs, the next with a bitten off ear and tail, and the last on eblinded. She started to cry and asked how this could happen. The animals told her what they saw. The three hurt piglets now told her all that had happened. The sow, enraged and dismayed...

...bit the jealous piglet to his death...

Moral: Justice taken into one's own [hands?/hooves?] does not pay and only serves to hurt the innocent.

Trivia

 * Fragment from an Untitled Text was a winner of the Scholars of Novia's "Fragments from the Library of Deekka the Druidess" contest.