The Apes that Don't Rest
Out in the Savannah wilds, I perch on top of a dying tree and see my next meal, a poor antelope running from hairless apes. I see him approaching me maybe I'll say hi to it.
"Hey friend, I see you're running, you think you lost them?"
*panting heavily* "I'm sure I did, they don't run fast at all so it was easy to escape."
"Interesting, well if you don't mind I'll drink some of the water here... Say antelope whats your name?"
"Derek, what's yours vulture?"
"Vulture is fine with me."
Interesting, why would a vulture just go by vulture? Well in any case I'm thirsty I've been running from those apes for hours now and I'm getting tired. Maybe I'll also rest here near this shade.
"Derek, I see them."
I rise straight and search the area, and horrifyingly I see those hairless apes with their sharp sticks with jagged stones adorned at the edges.
"Impossible, I ran for miles away, I lost sight of them almost an hour ago. How did they find me?!"
"Those funny apes, always seeming to know where to look for their food."
"What do you mean?"
"Speak vulture, SPEAK!"
"Those apes are very uncanny with how they track you. It's almost as if they're the apex."
I don't even think anymore, I bolt away the moment I hear one of them make those god awful noises. I bolt for hours on end my body is getting tired but I see another watering hole maybe I can rest, I surely escaped them this time. Why is vulture following me?
"Think you've lost them Derek?"
"Yes, they couldn't have followed me this far, they have to be exhausted by now. So stop following me, I'm not dead and wont be for a long while."
Vulture laughing is a sound I never want to hear nor do I wish anyone to hear, but why was he laughing.
"You really think you've lost them?"
He still sounded as if he enjoyed the thought
"Yes, they have to be tired."
"Fool, you're a complete fool! Those hairless apes will never stop, they continue to run and run until you die, I've seen it happen many of times and although it's a painful watch, a vulture has to eat."
He said this with a wicked smile across his beak, and as I turn around to make sure I wasn't followed, I see them. Over the horizon, only a few miles out, those hairless apes. May god have mercy on all of us, we can't escape these hairless apes.