HENS

It's my job to outshine the fox in cleverness

“Hence it comes that all armed prophets have been victorious, and all unarmed prophets have been destroyed. 

For, besides the things that have been said, the nature of peoples is variable; and it is easy to persuade them of something, but difficult to keep them in that persuasion. 

And thus things must be ordered in such a mode that when they no longer believe, one can make them believe by force."

— The Prince, 

Niccolò Machiavelli

The Queen :

Have you seen how the hens in

the yard peck at each other?

Each choosing the one just weaker.

Why do the ladies peck at you?

Ophelia :

I'm not noble, My Lady.

The Queen :

Did you know I was not raised at court?

My sister and I were sent as girls to a convent in France.

But even there, there were hens and they pecked.

Ophelia :

Even the nuns?

The Queen :

But I had my sister to defend me.