The Inky Blue

In a forest brimming with life, where trees were ancient and animals could talk, there lived a young rabbit called Impio who in human age would be about 12 or so. This rabbit happened to be an ambitious one. Besides tending to his carrot farm in Rabbithood, he would frequent his friends’ homes to help them with random tasks. You see, Impio loved to be helpful, but what he loved even more was to brag about how helpful he was.

One day, Impio visited his friend, Mowo the Tiger’s home. Mowo was the village athlete. Unfortunately, he hurt his left foot the day before when he accidentally smashed his foot in glass.

“Impio, could you help me bandage my foot?” asked Mowo. 

“Yes, yes, right on!” Impio replied excitedly, before taking his phone out to take a photo of Mowo’s injured foot. “Now, let’s patch up your foot,” Impio said and began bandaging Mowo’s foot. He did a poor job though, and very soon Mowo’s sore foot looked like it was worse than before…

The next day, Impio got a call from Dira the Deer. Dira said she needed his help fixing her broken window. 

“Yes, yes, right on!” Impio replied excitedly, again. This time he took a selfie with the broken window as the background. He managed to put together new glass on Dira’s window but the glass was not put properly, it was dangling sideways.

On the third day, Biru the Bird came knocking on Impio’s door. Biru needed help with gathering sticks for her new nest. 

“Yes, yes, right on!” Impio said again. He didn’t even ask where Biru wanted to build her nest, he just straight on grabbed a random stick on the ground and posed in front of the camera. 

By now, all of Impio’s friends were already tired of Impio’s “help”, so they confronted him. 

Mowo showed Impio his worsening foot angrily, “You put glue instead of ointment on my wound! Now look at my foot!” 

Dira showed up with the “new” glass windows that broke again. “There was some wind yesterday and these windows came apart immediately!”

Biru only looked disappointed. She thought Impio could help, but it turned out he only wanted to brag about helping.

Impio, hearing his friends, looked ashamed of himself. He apologised and promised he would do better. He helped to change Mowo’s bandages and ointment until he fully recovered. He went back to Dira’s house and fixed her window properly. He went around the forest to look for suitable sticks and helped Biru to make the perfect nest.

After his deeds, he apologised to his friends again, hoping they would forgive his bad attitude. They smiled and embraced him. They all forgave him, for he turned over a new leaf.