Arnold (3)
The missionary´s stories were all a bit far fetched but the tribes people loved make believe. What they really loved were the presents so they let him stay and he eventually bothered to learn their language if only to facilitate his teaching of his native language. More and more of his kind came with more presents and more of the jungle was cleared to make way for their bigger houses and social buildings they called churches. Thanks to the newcomers who seemed to know an awful lot the locals began to live more comfortably, but perhaps not as wisely. They began to dismiss their old ways as useless and thus with the death of the elders and many trees and plants, many cures for fatal diseases were lost forever.
But let’s forget about all that for the moment. The fact is that Arnold who is a vegetarian monster who was quite content to fool around in his tree house, listen to the birds and chew leaves, was also influenced by the changes, not religiously but gastronomically.
He came across a woman´s magazine one day. You know the kind - lose weight in a week articles and such. Once he had deciphered the letters and taught himself how to read, he read about nutrition and discovered he may not be getting the right nutrition at all from his green diet. He didn´t know what capsules or supplements were and he most certainly hadn´t ever seen a vitamin of any of the known species, but he did understand that there was a serious lack of meat in his life.
Now he wasn´t too fond of the idea that he had to eat meat, however, survival is survival and like everyone who gets sucked in by these magazines he thought he had to better himself so he decided to only eat what he liked.
Well, he liked children.
“Oh dear” he thought “this could turn out to be a bit grizzly. ” So that night he crept down from his tree house. He stole quietly into the town with the sole intent of kidnapping a small child for dinner tomorrow.
Let’s follow him and see did he have any luck.