Anyway, so unsurprisingly, the nightingale still doesn't sing; it just hops around its cage and stays quiet.
Now, in SOME fairy tales, this is the part where the king would get religion and realize that hey, maybe keeping things in captivity isn't the greatest way of making them do what you want them to, but guess what, kids, this king is an ASSHOLE.
So he decides he's going to get what he wants the same way he always gets what he wants. He leans in and he tells the bird that it's got one more chance, and when his son wakes up, it better sing for him, or he'll make sure the bird regrets it.
...Uh, by the way, content warning, fictional man threatens fictional bird, I guess.
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Anyway, so unsurprisingly, the nightingale still doesn't sing; it just hops around its cage and stays quiet.
Now, in SOME fairy tales, this is the part where the king would get religion and realize that hey, maybe keeping things in captivity isn't the greatest way of making them do what you want them to, but guess what, kids, this king is an ASSHOLE.
So he decides he's going to get what he wants the same way he always gets what he wants. He leans in and he tells the bird that it's got one more chance, and when his son wakes up, it better sing for him, or he'll make sure the bird regrets it.
...Uh, by the way, content warning, fictional man threatens fictional bird, I guess.