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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)

She had shown Theanore how to do it, but the murder muffins had come, and she had angled the milk directly in their mouths. All three of them were banished from the cliff and made to wait down by the house for the milk.

Plenty of food, a warm place to sleep and even a payment of ten gold coins per month. Grandpa Thinker would have never given her these things. She was glad that she was deemed unfit for her duties back home and sent here.

Something had to be done for the citizens of the continent of Alerion.

Sunflower knew that Theanore couldn't do much.

She had denounced the continent and grandpa Thinker. Some other dungeon cores had done the same, changing their supplier to dungeon core Alina.

Sunflower supposed that this must have been the dungeon core's plan. To get an innocent core, blind to its own purpose, to give it credibility.

Chapter 32: Milk and care!