The Second Meeting           





 
WEarth Rules for Domesticates:

ONE: Stay away.
TWO: Wilds are not responsible for the fate of those who break rule one.

WEarth Rules for Halfwilds:

ONE: No petty distractions during meetings
(ie. no gulls screeching about the problems involved in getting food out of garbage cans, no squirrel-complaints about real-estate, etc.)

TWO: All animals must eat in Wild fashion
(Pigeons, Rats, etc. must not bring Rect-World foods to meetings. Bears risk demotion to Halfwild status if they break this rule.)

THREE: NO Wild or Halfwild may speak of any meeting in the presence of Domesticates or while in Rect-World. Breaking this rule means prohibition from meetings.

FOUR: Halfwilds, due to their proximity to Rect-World, may be allowed to make occasional reports through appropriate channels about conditions and changes in that troubled
and expanding region.

When the new protocols were decided upon, Madame Lion called to the pigs who were slinking away from the ritual perimeter back to their grim, circumscribed lives. “Take note, yon pigs! You are charged with informing your Rect-World companions that Wild and Domesticate paths must now separate for good and all.”

Then pulling her fierce gaze away from the cowering creatures, she led the crowd in ratifying the Domesticate Ban. Making their Animal-Vows, rats, mice, pigeons, squirrels, etc., officially added their numbers and attitudes to the meetings, and any beleaguered Doms still present returned with the pigs to Rect-World, dispatching without delay the news of the their ban from WEarth.