Hyena and Raven were once great friends, even though they were quite different in some ways.

Raven could fly but Hyena was only able to walk.

One day Hyena, curious to know something about his friend, asked Raven, "What is this white thing which is always below your neck?"

Raven answered, "It is the fatty meat which I usually eat in the sky. I have been eating it for so long now it is stuck on my neck."

On hearing about meat, saliva started pouring out of Hyena's mouth for he was greedy and he loved meat very much.

Hyena really wanted to eat that meat. But how could he reach the meat in the sky if he had no wings to fly?

He asked Raven, "Please my friend, lend me some feathers so that I can make myself some wings. I really want to be able to fly like you."

Raven was not mean, so he gave him some feathers. Hyena sewed them together into wings. He fastened them to his body, and tried to take off into the sky.

But he was far too heavy for the few feathers to carry him. So he had to think of another plan.

Hyena asked Raven, "Please my friend, could I hold onto your tail as you fly up into the sky?"

"All right," said Raven. "I know how much you want to fly. Let's do it tomorrow morning."

When day came, Hyena took hold of Raven's tail and Raven flew up into the sky.

Raven flew and flew and flew until he was exhausted.

But Hyena said, "Just a little further, my friend!"

He could see the white and fatty meat just above them, and his mouth was watering.

When they reached the first piece of fatty meat, Hyena felt a jerk. One of Raven's tail feathers came off in his hand!

Then there was another jerk, and another. Raven felt much lighter, and the ache in his tail was going.

Raven sang: Raven's feathers, unpluck yourselves. Raven's feathers, unpluck yourselves.

In response, Hyena sang the opposite: Raven's feathers hold on, don't unpluck yourselves. Raven's feathers hold on, don't unpluck yourselves.

Finally, the feathers could not hold Hyena anymore. He was in the middle of nowhere in the sky.

He jumped onto the fatty meat thinking that as he ate, the fatty meat would hold him.

But as he tried to hold and eat the 'meat', all he felt was moist cloud!

By now he was falling fast. "Help, help!" he shouted. But no one could hear him.

Raven was lost in the clouds.

Hyena fell on the ground with a crash and lay silent for some minutes.

He woke up howling in pain, with a broken leg and dark scars all over his body.

From that day to now, Hyena limps and he has many scars on his body. He has never been able to fly.

He and Raven are no longer friends.