Dodo gazelle lion

Reda Hani

Dodo ran home and found his mother welcoming him at the door with her usual smile. He asked her eagerly, “Was my father really a leader?”

She couldn't believe what she heard, so she answered him in confusion: "Repeat what you said!"

He repeated the question to her, but the question struck her like a thunderbolt and increased her confusion. She said, “Go in and ask your father this question.”

After he entered and asked him, the father came out with tears in his eyes, repeating: “I don’t know, I don’t know!” Then he left.

Dodo followed him, confused and sad. He looked outside the house, looking for his mother, but he found no trace of her. He knew that she was avoiding him too.

In the morning the disciples gathered at their appointed time, but the teacher was a little late, unlike his usual habit. He walked with heavy steps and sadness was evident on his features.

When he met with the students, he said in a tone filled with anguish: “Today’s lesson has been canceled, and it has become a day of rest.”

When they had dispersed, he called out to Dodo: “Dodo, follow me, please.”

He followed him until he entered a large hall in which there were a group of the most important gazelles. Then they asked him to sit among them so that they could tell him the story that he must know.