Two taluna were walking in the rainforest, see, when they heard sounds from down the path. Well, they could tell that the sounds could only be made by a company of people who were not used to travelling stealthily in the jungle. The women thought about hiding but quickly decided that if the intruders were trying to capture taluna, it might be best to have fun with them and scare them off. So, instead of hiding, the women made a plan.

The taluna women sat in the path, facing each other, and pretended to not notice as the men first saw them and then tried to approach silently. Although they were barely able to keep from laughing, the women managed to control their voices and began a seemingly genuine conversation about how they hated having to be bait while the rest of the tribe waits to ambush those stupid people hunting them, and how good it is going to be to have fresh men to play with as soon they have gotten close enough for the tribe to ambush them, and so forth.

Well, of course the men heard this, and they looked at each other and decided that this was not going to work at all, so they beat a hasty retreat, thankful that they had not fallen prey to the clever taluna tribe. The women couldn’t help but hear the men’s stumbling retreat, and as soon as the noise had died away, they burst into laughter.

As it happened, a pygmy man had silently observed the whole thing, and he saw in this an opportunity to rid his band of at least those two taluna once and for all. So, he decided to tell the outsiders that they had been tricked. When he turned to pursue them, however, he snapped a branch. The taluna caught a flash of him as he sped away, and they knew they were in trouble. It would not even be possible to hid if other jungle people were involved. They would need a new plan, and it had better work.

Well, the pygmy found the men and told them how they had been tricked. The men, furious, began running back along the path toward the women, with the pygmy following closely. As they approached the spot, they slowed down in hopes of not scaring off their quarry. As they snuck up on the women, they saw the taluna still sitting in the path, facing each other, seemingly unaware of their presence, and they heard one taluna say to the other, “Where is that damn pygmy? We sent him off at least half an ahn ago to bring back those stupid men, and he hasn’t gotten back yet!”

The men silently retreated, never to return, and the pygmy, well, the pygmy can still be seen today as he docilely serves his current masters by displaying rainforest collectibles at an import shop in Ar.