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Bat mourns mother as beasts, birds, and ants argue identity, illustrating consequences of delay in Equatorial Guinean folktale.

The Cost of Delay: An Equatorial Guinean Folktale

In the deep forests of Equatorial Guinea, where daylight filters gently through thick green canopies and night hums with the sound of unseen wings, there lived a creature called Ndemi, the Bat. Ndemi dwelled quietly with his mother, Vyadu the Antelope, in a small clearing away from other animals. Their days passed peacefully, until fate carried sorrow to their home.

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