The elephant nodded at the duck, and the duck replied with twitch and an adjusting of his feathers.
"Stale bread?" the elephant intoned with a bellowing of his gigantic voice.
"Yes," replied the duck, "And stale peanuts?"
"Uh-hmm. The humans are becoming less than tolerable," came the groan.
The two wandered from their pen and found the home of their masters. The masters ignored their pleas. They simply couldn't understand.
Soon, more of the elephant's friends joined them in their supplication. Unfortunately, this didn't ease the situation for anyone. In the end, however, there were more animals than humans.
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99 Words is a pet project I started in 2011 when at college. The idea was that I didn't have time for writing, but still had passing fancies, visions, plot ideas, and the like. Instead of tossing them to the wayside, I came up with a plan to turn those notes into little chunkules of text, each 99 words long. This is section is still updated.