All that day Mowgli sat in the cave tending his fire-pot and dipping dry branches into it to see how they looked. He found a branch that satisfied him, and in the evening when Tabaqui came to the cave and told him rudely enough that he was wanted at the Council Rock, he laughed till Tabaqui ran away. Then Mowgli went to the Council, still laughing. —“Mowgli’s Brothers,” The Jungle Book, Rudyard Kipling Explain how the ending of the passage creates tension and might lead to a conflict.