The morning Garingo the parrot blamed the wind for something the wind did not do. Shelly's favourite rock has split in half. Garingo invents the most theatrical lie in the history of Shiloh Creek — a small, local, highly local, undocumented wind. The listener sees the whole thing happen. Garingo learns that the truth needs only one short sentence — and the lie needs many. The Bible has a line about that too.