Op-Ed

This is a tale of a student who was given the task of presenting the elders with a proposition. He went back into the forest and chose to dally for weeks instead of preparing his work for the elders.

More weeks went by. He made no progress whatsoever on his proposal. Didn’t even think about it.

When time came to return to the elders, he hurriedly threw something together thinking it would suffice.

He made his way out of the forest, past the fountain in the village square and to the elders who were waiting for him.

When he was finished, the elders basically kicked him out for insulting them with such a half-assed proposition and for wasting their time.

On his way back into the forest, he stopped at the village in the square.

He put up a sign warning that at such and such a time on such and such a day a great dragon would emerge from the fountain and destroy the entire village.

He retreated into the forest and there he stayed for weeks and weeks.

Meanwhile, word spread around all over the land about the dragon who, by then, most everyone was expecting to emerge from the fountain at such and such a time on such and such a day and destroy the entire village.

The student began to regret what he had done.

He procrastinated until the very last day - the day the dragon was due to emerge from the fountain.

He made his way out of the forest but as he approached the village, he found it difficult to get to the square as there were so many people surrounding the village with more and more arriving in a steady stream.

Instantly a fever came over him. Gripped by it, sweating, breathing heavily, he ran madly towards the fountain.

He fought his way through the crowd, up to the foot of the fountain where he stood up and, shouting for attention over the din of the crowd, admitted his guilt and begged for forgiveness.

At that very moment, in a moment of silence as the crowd hushed and gave him their complete attention, a great and powerful dragon emerged from the fountain and destroyed the entire village.

waxieus is waxieus is the god of adaptation. he is capable of communicating with and relating to any culture and/or sensibility, thus, able to navigate nimbly through most any environment with a voracious appetite and knack for learning his way around. his weakness? well, he has no individual culture of his own, instead he's a rather strict product of environment. waxieus makes choices based on experiences and intuition rather than established forms and functions. he tells it like it is, without sentimentality but not without care.
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