Mangoe Bound

After enjoying a rich seafood bouillabaisse, the three tigers carry Mangoe back to their camp, where they put a collar around her neck and tie her to a palm tree.

Over the next three months, Mangoe serves her Cho-Zen masters in various capacities. Surprisingly, she learns that the tigers are sophisticated gourmands, preparing elaborate meals from a shelf of cookbooks that they keep in their cave. Mangoe is impressed by the range of exotic foodstuffs that they gather from the jungle, and while she feels sympathy (perhaps empathy?) for the pigs and monkeys and dolphins that end up in the tigers' meals, she also finds that her greatest pleasure comes from sharing a mellow evening dinner with the urbane tigers.

The Fro-Zen Cho-Zen, for their part, are enamored with Mangoe's wit and decorative abilities. More alarmingly, though, they are also obsessed with the ring of tender fat growing on the sedentary girl's tummy. They pinch her expanding thighs and joke about what a nice roast she would make.

One evening, the tigers return to their clearing carrying a large, full bag. They look especially excited, and Mangoe approaches them with curiosity.

"Tonight," announced the leader, "we shall feast grandly!" There is a glint in his eye that worries Mangoe.

"Oh?", she asks with an edge of uncertainty in her voice, "and what will we feast on?"

The three tigers looked at each other and smiled, and then answered ...

1. "You, our scrumptious slave!"
2. "One of the three hags, who we caught napping near the stream."
3. "A tasty, plump little boy who washed up on the beach."
4. "Ms. Miyaki, the famous animal collector, who wasn't nearly as careful as her reputation suggested she would be."

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