The Lion and the Mouse
… Finding the lion caught in the hunters' trap, the mouse seized this opportunity of reversed positions to reciprocate the lion's great favor: she gnawed through the ropes. Now freed, the lion leapt upon his saviour and gobbled her up. As for the hunters, he wrought upon them a terrible, painful, lingering retribution. He then spread the story that he'd simply torn through the ropes, thereby bolstering rather than diminishing his fearsome reputation.
Moral: Those who would lead must carefully control the spin.
#MastoPrompt: reciprocate
(#130Prompt: positions)