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J is for Jealousy
Sly the Jealous Snake
A snake who wants the wren to sing for him alone, until the branch is empty.
What happens in it
Sly hisses at every bird who comes to sing with Willa the wren, and walls her bush in with twigs. Twice a level you choose what Sly does, and it plays out.
Choose what he does
Each level has two scenes. Two things Sly could do appear, and you pick one.
Nothing is timed and there is no going back - whichever you pick plays out.
Both right in a level is three stars, one is two, neither is one.
Tap a card, or use the left and right arrow keys.
The three levels
- The Cozy Den — The New Singer, then Chasing Friends Away
- The Lonely Coil — The Empty Branch, then The Meadow Gate
- The Open Circle — Welcoming New Friends, then The Sunlit Harmony
Why jealousy is one of the twenty-six
Sing Me a Fable is an alphabet of faults, one for every letter, from Aggression to Zealotry. J is jealousy, and this is the playable half of that fable: the child makes the choice the animal makes, and watches what it costs. Nobody explains the moral afterwards, which is the whole point of a fable and the reason the form has lasted two and a half thousand years.
Every letter has one: twenty-six fables, twenty-six faults, twenty-six games. See the whole arcade, or take the twenty-six colouring posters and Find the Error sheets free.
