Big was a confused ox. Too many things had changed.He and his brother, Little, were taken from the herd and put under a low sky.They didn’t like it. Too smelly, noisy, lonely. There were strange creatures close to them, and some were always angry. It was too tiresome to be angry.Big was happier when he and Little were let out, back under the normal sky, even though they had to pull that heavy thing attached to them for hours.“Big. Go back?”Big kept their walking pace and ignored Little. His brother was lucky Boss didn’t care what he heard. Though he understood why Little kept asking. Big felt the same, but it would be rude to say it out loud.Boss was a strangely shaped ox, but he was still the Boss Ox. After all, only an Ox could speak to an Ox… at least, that’s what Big knew. It also helped that the Boss was in the place with the low sky with them, and Big couldn’t understand any of the others in there.So Big decided that the Boss Ox was the boss, because he could feel the strength in Boss. Just like the strongest in the herd was his previous boss.“Big, what are you thinking of now? Surely, you don’t watch to listen to Little?”Big slowly shook his head. “Little is confused.”Boss laughed—a strange, ear-hurting sound. But Big had heard it enough to be used to it.“And so are you, Big.” Boss let out another strange laugh before tapping his front-left foot. “This is the second task—for both of you. Break this boulder into pieces smaller than yourself.”Big raised his head to see the top of this ‘boulder.’ It was just a very large stone, so he didn’t know why it needed a special name. Still, this task would be difficult.The first task Boss gave them made (...)