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The Tortoise's Riddle

Impatient Remy the ring-tailed lemur shakes, bangs and rolls the zoo's puzzle treat-box, but the faster he rushes the more stuck he gets. Then Old Tuck the tortoise ambles over with a gentle rhyme — stop and look, and think it through — and Remy learns that the quickest way isn't quick at all: it's stopping, looking, and thinking.

Wide establishing shot, bright sunny morning: the cheerful zoo enclosure; in the center a clear puzzle treat-box packed full of colorful fruit treats; a few small friendly zoo animals (a little parrot, a small meerkat, a baby tortoise) leaning in to look. Remy is rushing in fastest of all. Bright and inviting.

One sunny morning at the zoo, the keeper set down a clear puzzle-box, packed full of the juiciest fruit treats. All the animals leaned in to look — and no one leaned in faster than Remy.

Medium shot: impatient Remy with his long striped ring-tail curled up high, dashing eagerly straight at the treat-box, eyes bright and eager.

Remy was a little ring-tailed lemur, and Remy was quick. Quick to run, quick to leap, quickest of all to want things RIGHT NOW. "Treats!" he chirped, and dashed straight at the box.

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