... But every day she insisted "But no elephants." And of course an elephant was always with the salesman.
Come the start of winter, the salesman has to leave and the elephant's the only animal he has left. Not even the salesman wants to keep it so he just leaves it outside the woman's house. She ends up taking pity eventually and lets it in... but it's so heavy it breaks through the floor of the house and all through the winter it just sits around her house as things get colder and colder. And it's so big and hungry that it quickly eats all the food that was supposed to last everyone through the whole winter, so...
[She blinks, a grimacing smile twitching up every few moments.]
So everyone ends up in a painful situation. They either stay and starve, or try to leave for somewhere closer and freeze en-route.
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Date: 2014-12-26 08:02 pm (UTC)Come the start of winter, the salesman has to leave and the elephant's the only animal he has left. Not even the salesman wants to keep it so he just leaves it outside the woman's house. She ends up taking pity eventually and lets it in... but it's so heavy it breaks through the floor of the house and all through the winter it just sits around her house as things get colder and colder. And it's so big and hungry that it quickly eats all the food that was supposed to last everyone through the whole winter, so...
[She blinks, a grimacing smile twitching up every few moments.]
So everyone ends up in a painful situation. They either stay and starve, or try to leave for somewhere closer and freeze en-route.