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A merchant stumbles on a grotto, lost. He eats his last apple. The merchant plants the seeds the next day to provide food for future lost travelers. 

And so, the nymph Theanore is born.

She would grow from a tiny seed to a splendid apple tree. She would meet many friends. Theanore will try her hand at being a merchant like her father. And she will get to know her lifetime companion, the merman Marinus.

But as every farmer can tell you, apple trees live only for about 150 years and so, with her tree dried up, so will Theanore die.

 But before that, she will live.

The Apple Grotto Nymph (Dungeon Core Fairy Tale)

There was a slight problem with the harvest of most of the vegetables. After them, a cover crop had to be planted. So far, Theanore thought that clovers would do just fine.

There were two problems with that.

There were no clover seeds in the seed sack that Crassus had bought for her with the gold Theanore gave him. And there were a lot of different clovers that did different things.

Yellow clover was perfect for bee pasture, but it was planted in the early spring to late summer.

Crimson clover was good for soil enrichment, and it could be planted during the autumn, but Theanore wanted something that could attract bees.

White clover was good against weeds, and it was easy to rake.

Theanore wrote down these pros and thought of the cons. She didn't know them, and Tania told her that she no longer had access to Grandpa Thinker's encyclopedia Plantanica.

Chapter 24: Crops and trinkets!