No rabbit is safe until all rabbits are safe: pride alone cannot protect.

The meadow was restless. The dominant white rabbits, led by a sharp-tongued leader, strutted proudly. The leader mocked the brown, gray, and speckled rabbits, saying they were disorganized and weak. They quarreled among themselves, letting his insults go unanswered. His pride swelled as their voices shrank.

Then one twilight, a fox leaped from the thickets. It lunged for the mocking leader, leaving him cornered. His boasts turned to squeals, and for the first time, he felt the sting of fear. The few white rabbits who didn’t flee urged their invincible leader to fight.

Just as the fox’s teeth closed in, a band of brown, gray, and speckled rabbits dashed forward. Together they thumped, kicked, and nipped until the fox slunk away. The white rabbits’ leader lay trembling, saved not by his own kind but by those he had scorned.

Humbled, he bowed his head. “I was wrong. My words built walls, not warrens. You showed me that safety lives in unity, not in pride.”

From then on, the rabbits still argued, but over grass patches, burrow space, and thumping at night. No voice mocked another. They remembered that their true strength came when many colors of paws thumped the ground together.

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🐇✨ In the meadow, one proud rabbit mocked the rest… until the fox came.
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