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"I'm still not convinced you had nothing to do with this!" says one of the men.

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"I feel like that's your problem, not mine."

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"How you feel about isn't my problem either."

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"...you know what, fuck this."

She turns her crown-hoe into a crown-axe, sweeps it through her house whack-whack-whack, pockets the rubble in a wave of black flame, and heads for the beach. Maybe if she wings out over the ocean she can find an island tiny enough that NO ONE ELSE IS LIVING ON IT.

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That's not hard at all, actually! Here's one! It's just about barely big enough for a garden and a cottage if she flattens it and it is very rocky but she's really magic.

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She actually finds it incredibly soothing to spend all day pulverizing rocks until she can unpocket and repair her little cottage. Then she can go to sleep and, if uninterrupted, wake up nice and refreshed in the morning and resume beating up the ground until it agrees to let her grow plants in it.

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Sufficiently pulverized rocks are kind of like dirt!

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Especially once her crown gets in on convincing them, yes.

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And in not much time at all she is just as cozy and much harder to bother.

Except by sea monsters. Those continue to happen every day or so.

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She will beat up sea monsters if she must.

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Well, she doesn't have to, some of them come for her little island but some of them are content to go right past her and hit the mainland.

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...she will, on reflection, also beat up sea monsters that are just going past her to the mainland, but she'll be cranky about it.

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The monsters don't care at all.

She can spot the Beautiful Sharp Lamb occasionally, fighting sea monsters or playing with shapeshifting or building sandcastles or flying around.

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Maybe she should've flown farther away.

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No. She can be cool about this. She can be cool about this, right?

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She can do her best to be cool about this, at any rate.

But, while she's thinking about things that upset her...

She really needs to attend to the needs of her crown.

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No she doesn't! It is a good and loyal crown and if not taking Followers is very important to her then they will not take Followers.

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No, see, the crown is her friend and she cares about harming it.

...she does, also, not want to take any Followers against their will. And, as they've just seen, the Lamb is... not great at getting along with people who have better options.

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...aaaaand she does not want to solve that problem with mind control, because that would be contrary to the whole point, yes?

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Correct! Good crown!

So. She needs... to find some way... to make friends, friends who might want to get in on such advantages of Followership as 'free resurrection' and 'her personal protection from slug monsters', even though she can barely stand the thought of trying.

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...her crown, also, cares about her. If she can barely stand the thought of trying, now is maybe not the time to try. Now is maybe the time to grow a garden on this tiny island, and sleep every night for a long time, and not do things that make her tired and upset. The crown is very patient. It can wait.

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...okay. If it's sure.

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It is sure.

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Then she will rest, and garden, and fight sea monsters, and try to graciously ignore the BSL's occasional presence, and maybe revisit the idea of making friends in a few months if nothing comes up before then to disrupt this plan.

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From her vantage points, she sees:

- sea monsters
- the BSL
- boats, occasionally tangling with sea monsters and taking damage and defending themselves with harpoons and cannons
- a magical person who isn't the BSL, after a couple of weeks, flying overhead on floral-looking wings

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