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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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And Annie checks on her potato sprouts every day.
They all sprout except for one dud of an eye. And then, slowly but surely, the control group dies off... and the others die off slower... except for one box. Those grow.
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"I think so! I mean, they might wind up tasting terrible, or something, and we're probably going to have to import topsoil... but yeah!"
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Hug! "So I can hire elves whenever we head up. And in the meantime make a lot more of these for the casteless to start growing things for themselves and getting the hang of it."
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They're so celebratory.
Setting up the first farm goes very smoothly. The main obstacle is finding somewhere to put it, and Stalas solves this problem by buying a building in Dust Town. Who wants to grow potatoes? Lots of people. Lots of people want to grow potatoes.
Word arrives that the armies are going to gather in Redcliffe soon.
Setting up the first farm goes very smoothly. The main obstacle is finding somewhere to put it, and Stalas solves this problem by buying a building in Dust Town. Who wants to grow potatoes? Lots of people. Lots of people want to grow potatoes.
Word arrives that the armies are going to gather in Redcliffe soon.
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Annie condenses everything she knows about compost and how to cook the potatoes once they have them and planting and stuff into stuff she can convey before 'soon' rolls around.
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And her farmers learn many things, and Caridin hands off the exportable bicycles project to an apprentice and helps Annie make more plant-friendly runelights, and then it's time to get on the road. Hesta, Kador, and Tamek all volunteer, as does an all-glowing squad of Legionnaires.
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The trip is a little slower this time since the majority of the army needs sleep, but they still reach Redcliffe in a week.
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And in Redcliffe Annie's priorities are a) find a pillow to stuff her face in and a room wherein to do that, b) go a-hiring. Are there elves about?
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They get to stay at the castle again. The castle has high-quality pillows.
And yes, there are elves about! Plenty of them, even! They wear leather armour and carry distinctively styled weapons and say disparaging things about humans to each other.
And yes, there are elves about! Plenty of them, even! They wear leather armour and carry distinctively styled weapons and say disparaging things about humans to each other.
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...Oh, that one somewhat insulting word wasn't in the Thedan common language! There's an Elvish. They don't seem to be using it most of the time but maybe it'll help with the hiring skew Bhelen suggested.
Annie obtains sign-making materials and writes a sign that says in both the common tongue and Elvish: "Profit from dwarven classism: ask me how" and sets up a table near where the elves all seem to live.
Annie obtains sign-making materials and writes a sign that says in both the common tongue and Elvish: "Profit from dwarven classism: ask me how" and sets up a table near where the elves all seem to live.
An armed and armoured elf walks past her sign, double-takes, and says incredulously, "Is that supposed to be elvish?"
"What game are you trying to play here, shem?" he demands.
"Don't you?" he says, scowling. "Have you ever even met an elf before?"
"Did you speak Elvish to him?" he asks scornfully.