One day Lai and Amairmi were chasing a zebra together. Soon Lai got tired and said to Amairmi:
“I’m tired, carry me, Amairmi!”
“Grab my tail,” replied Amairmi, “I will carry you.” And I thought to myself: “I’ll carry it a little and then eat it.”
Lai grabbed Amairmi's large tail with his left hand and pulled out his knife with his right.
-Are you holding up well? - Amairmi asked. “I don’t feel you at all.”
“Okay,” Lai answered and began to cut off her tail with a knife. - Do you feel anything now? he asked.
- No, I don’t feel anything.
The bark continued to cut until Amairmi screamed:
- Oh, something is biting me!
“It’s probably flies,” Lai answered. - They stuck to your tail.
-What are these flies that bite so hard?
“These are such biting flies,” answered Lai. - Run quickly so that they fall behind.
Amairmi ran faster, and Lai, meanwhile, cut off her tail. Amairmi felt that she felt much better and asked:
- Is my tail still there?
Lai replied:
“The tail is still there, but it seems to have fallen to pieces.”
- How is this possible? - Amairmi exclaimed in horror. - I want to look at him.
She turned around and shouted:
- Where is my long tail?
“You probably lost it on the way,” Lai answered.
- What have you done, Lai! - Amairmi wailed. -You cut off my tail!
- How could I cut it off? It was the flies that ate him.
- Stop talking! - Amairmi shouted. - Now I will kill you!
At this time, sister Amairmi came out to meet them. Lai was afraid because he was alone.
- What happened to you? - asked their sister Amanrmi.
“He cut off my tail,” Amairmi answered.
The sister looked at her tail and laughed. Amairmi angrily jumped at Lai, but he managed to dodge.
- Why are you rushing at him? - asked the sister. - That’s no good. The case must be handed over to the ruler of this country, let him pronounce a verdict. And you, sister, know that you can’t appear in our house now, because you don’t have a tail.
Amairmi began to cry. A Lai asked:
-Who is your sultan?
“Our sultan is the snake Harario,” answered Amairmi.
“No, I won’t go to him,” said Lai, “he won’t be able to judge us correctly.” Let's go to our Sultan.
“Your sultan orders me to be condemned,” Amairmi objected, “I won’t go to him.”
“You don’t want to go to mine, and I don’t want to go to yours,” Lai answered. - Everyone has their own life.
- Then give me back my tail! - Amairmi shouted.
- Where can I get it? - Lai answered.
Finally he agreed to go to the snake Harario. On the way, he collected red earth and smeared his knees as if they were bleeding. Amairmi ran to the Sultan first, and Lai walked with a limp, as if he could barely move his legs.
Harario listened to Amairmi's complaint and said:
- I know Lai, he is a very cunning person. Let him come. Where is he?
“He’s a little behind,” Amairmi said.
Harario sent a messenger to hurry Laius.
“The Sultan demands that you go quickly,” said the messenger. - Why are you barely able to stretch?
“Fool,” Lai shouted at him, “can’t you see that I’m sick and can hardly move my legs?”
And he continued to walk slowly. Appearing to the Sultan, Lai pretended to be completely ill and began to moan and groan heavily.
“Hello, Sultan,” he finally said barely.
“Hello, you’re a bad person,” Harario replied. “Why did you insult my messenger and, moreover, cut off Amairmi’s tail?” Do you feel guilty?
Lai sat down on the ground and said:
- I don't know. Look at your laws for yourself and you will see whether I am guilty or not guilty.
-What about your knees? - asked the Sultan.
“Look, look at your laws,” Lai continued to repeat instead of answering, “you will see everything in them.”
The Sultan turned to Amairmi:
- Is that how you treated him like that? he asked. - Look, he's all wounded.
“Better look at my tail,” said Amairmi, “how much shorter it has become!”
“Yes, I see,” the Sultan objected, “and I have already decided in my soul that Lai is worthy of death.” But that won't do either. Go your separate ways.
- How, are you letting him go unpunished? - Amairmi asked.
Lai tried to get up, but could not do it. They helped him up.
“He still doesn’t belong in this world,” said Sultan Amairmi. “Don’t you see that my sentence is not needed here?” Wait a little while for him to die.
Lai slowly walked away. Having gone a considerable distance, he shouted:
- I am Lai!
And he ran on as fast as he could. The Sultan only cried out in amazement. And Amairmi said:
“You see, just now he was sick, but now he turned out to be healthy and strong.” I don't want to know your laws anymore! Now let everyone judge for himself what he considers fair.
Amairmi is a zooanthropomorphic monster; most often in the form of a huge woman with a tail who devours people and animals.
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru