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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)

With all the seeds for the cover crops and the winter vegetables, they went back to the grotto. It was agreed that the ants would plant the crops and Theanore and Marinus would harvest what they already had, while Crassus went to the town of Mirstone to search for enchanted items.

They had a simple dinner of grilled fish with baked pumpkin for dessert and on the next day Crassus left for Mirstone.

The two children took baskets and began to collect the vegetables they could.

By midday, they had two baskets filled with carrots, five with cabbage. A basket with different herbs. A separate basket for the mint so they could make tea from it. And three baskets with pumpkins.

They carried all the baskets themselves, so the ants could rest. Everything was arranged in the ice room, and then the children went to the kitchen area of the grotto to eat some baked pumpkin for lunch.

Chapter 25: The false lady