African Plains & Democracy
Written by Adam Blaize
ZEBRA
The watering hole's getting smaller.
ZEBRA 2
Indeed.
ZEBRA
Can I ask you something?
ZEBRA 2
Of course
ZEBRA
You know this place we're standing in?
ZEBRA 2
Yeah?
ZEBRA
Well... oh never mind, it doesn't matter.
ZEBRA 2
Oh no; now you can't start a verbal transaction and then just cease to deposit the information.
ZEBRA
Well I was just thinking that in this spot, a lot of blood has been spilled. We lost Gary, Denise, Martin and Frank to name just a few.
ZEBRA 2
So what are you saying?
ZEBRA
I just think here, in this particular location, beneath the blistering hot sun next to the watering hole that decreases day by day; we, as zebras, are a tiny bit vulnerable to yet another attack from a horde of marauding Lions. In fact, it was only this morning that Shaun had his windpipe choked and his back leg chewed off, before he met an extremely violent and horrifically savage end.
ZEBRA 2
Yes but that's the nature of nature and they are the rules aren't they? We are Zebra after all. How would the lions survive if we suddenly just said, 'hey now enough's enough'. We can run, but it's inevitable that they will, at some point, catch us.
ZEBRA
If you think it's so inevitable that we will be caught, why do you run?
ZEBRA 2
Oh I don't know. I suppose the lions like work up a bit of a sweat. The chase is something of a tradition around these parts.
ZEBRA
Well I don't think it's fair. We're bigger than them after all. Why don't we stand up for ourselves a bit more you know? Why don't we fight back?
ZEBRA 2
Fight back? I do admire your valour but you seem to be forgetting who the king is around these parts.
ZEBRA
And what about democracy? We're as much a part of these African Plains as anybody else. Who voted him the king anyway? It's all rigged.
ZEBRA 2
Shhh. You don't want to be throwing those kinds of accusations around; you'll be eaten for treason.
The Zebra turns away from his seemingly lion friendly acquaintance.
ZEBRA
Oh right, another reason for them to eat us; what was the last one? Oh yeah, Lions can't survive on a diet of Buffalo and Gazelles. I mean where's the fairness in that?
ZEBRA
Hey where are you...
F/X Lions Roar
ZEBRA
Ahhhhh!!
END