“Remember well the cautionary tale of Akfas the Wizard.”

“What’s the cautionary tale of Akfas the Wizard?”

“There once was a wizard named Akfas who supposedly was incredibly powerful and incredibly dangerous. It was said that he often took the form of a mighty bear and roamed the woods looking for mischief to cause. So when the local village noticed a bear with a wizard’s hat in their woods, they were terrified, avoiding it and even feeding the bear to keep Akfas at bay. It was only after years of this that they realized that it was not a wizard at all, but just a bear with an old hat on its head. The moral is, what seems terrifying may not be what it seems.”

“So was the bear harmless?”

“No, it mauled a bunch of people.”

“This is the stupidest fable I’ve ever heard.”