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Annie is on her trike on her way to school.
This van labeled HAZARDOUS MATERIALS is also on its way to school.
The van hits a patch of black ice. It goes spinning, it turns over, it slices itself open on a wrought-iron fence with spikes, and it disgorges boxes which smash open on the pavement. Some of them skitter clear into the slush.
Some of them - along with most of the van - land on Annie.
There is a whirl of bewildering pain and confusion -
- and she falls to the ground, injured and in more kinds of discomfort beyond that and moaning.
She slowly starts to heal before the eyes of her sole witness.
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keep_busy
first-and-final
"It won't kill him," Stalas clarifies, "it just hurts. A lot."
The woman nods.
"Time to go look at plants?"
The woman nods.
"Time to go look at plants?"
moreperfect
"I'm not actually sure," says Tev. "The village recently... went through some troubles... so everything's a little out of order. I can show you some likely places, anyway."
moreperfect
Tev shakes his head. "Let's go buy plants. I'll explain on the way."
Back out of the castle they go. Tev seems disinclined to begin his explanation in earshot of anyone from Redcliffe.
Back out of the castle they go. Tev seems disinclined to begin his explanation in earshot of anyone from Redcliffe.
moreperfect
"So," he says on the walk back to the village from the castle, "that was the Arl of Redcliffe you just healed, and his wife who thanked you for it. The arl's son Connor has the mage talent, and they were keeping it hidden and having him taught in secret because they didn't want him taken to the Circles. Well, his secret magic tutor was a blood mage hired to poison the arl, and when that started happening, the kid made a deal with a demon. He was too young to know better. The demon possessed Connor, kept the arl just barely alive, and started using magic to kill people and make their bodies into puppets to kill more people. I'm not really sure why. For fun, maybe."
keep_busy
"...apart from the arl still being poisoned how did the rest of that settle out?"
moreperfect
"A lot of people died, but the kid is still alive and not possessed anymore."
moreperfect
"Not yet. I guess they'll send him there as soon as it's safe to travel. This side of Lake Calenhad, you see a lot of darkspawn on the road these days."
moreperfect
Every single person they meet in the village of Redcliffe seems to recognize Tev, and most of them are personally grateful to him for saving their lives. He does his best to be gracious about it, smiling where appropriate, offering condolences for lost friends and family.
A side effect of this situation is that Stalas and Annie get really good deals on plants without a whole lot of questions asked.
A side effect of this situation is that Stalas and Annie get really good deals on plants without a whole lot of questions asked.
keep_busy
Well, that's nice. Do any of the plant vendors have useful things to say about what sorts of plants might be easily farmed by people who've possibly literally never seen a plant in their lives?
keep_busy
Annie attempts to discreetly figure out if these people are aware of nitrogen fixation at least in a general 'have invented crop rotation' sense and regardless of whether she can thank them that way she does so verbally.
Crop rotation exists. And she's welcome.
keep_busy
And now she has several cultivars of potato and seeds for some non-tree fruit and miscellaneous vegetables and herbs! Hooray.
first-and-final
As they're packing up these various items for transport, Stalas says, "I wonder how Sigrun's doing... oh good, she's fine."
Then he pauses, reviewing this statement.
Then he pauses, reviewing this statement.
first-and-final
"...I can somehow tell that she's fine. Sort of in the way I can tell that my feet are still attached. I just didn't think of it until now, apparently. But there she is," he points, "off thataway, uninjured and not under stress."