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"They say that in the forest there's an animal called dzulúm. Every night he goes prowling through his kingdom. He goes to where the she-lion is lying with her cubs, and she gives him the carcass of a calf she's just killed. The dzulúm takes it, but doesn't eat it, because he doesn't prowl from hunger but from the will to command. The tigers run away with a crackling of dry leaves when they smell him near. The flocks wake with a tenth of them gone, and the monkeys, shameless things, howl with fear in the treetops."
"And what's the dzulúm like?"