(XXX she’s at the campus mephitidaeans, but towards the conclusion of the meeting:)
“If you want to stop just hanging around here and see some real action, stick around after everyone else has left,” Malchus announced. Bisky was intrigued.
“Well, actually, that’s all I have,” Daisy admitted. “Hope to see you all next week!”
Approximately half of the skunks actually left, including Daisy. The other half, which included Bisky, stuck around and eagerly awaited for Malchus’s explanation. What was “real action?”
One of the other male skunks folded open a plastic table. Malchus drew from his backpack a prominent flag of black, white and red horizontal stripes. The center consisted of a stripe of white sandwiched by two black stripes, which was a fairly universal symbol of Mephitidaeans, or skunks in general. But sandwiching that were two stripes of red, which Bisky had to admit was not typical and rather… confrontational. Malchus hung the flag from the table for all of the other skunks to see, then he and the other skunk stood on top of the table. It was weird and offputting to see skunks elevated above other skunks, and talking down to them.
The room seemingly transformed from a simple, modest religious gathering into something completely different. Bisky imagined banners unfurling from the cieling, carpets unrolling themselves, and day suddenly gear-shifted into night. And most shockingly, the quiet, awkward and meek Malchus magically leveled up and seemed to assume an entirely new identity.
“The truth of the matter is,” Malchus declared with a conviction that Bisky did not think possible of someone like him, "`going to the temple and praying and doing the same thing we’ve been doing for thousands of years just isn’t gonna cut it anymore. It certainly makes us better animals, being the One True Faith and all, but the blunt, brutal truth is that skunks are oppressed and we have been this whole time and we’ve been idling in our little corner for way too long. Skunks hang around each other all the time not because we want to, but rather in spite.