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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)

They stayed in the orphanage for the night since the children were crowding Theanore and Marinus.

The two children didn't see anything wrong with their room. They were used to sleeping in a cave, after all. But they had to admit that the beds they had in Crassus' home were better.

And the curtains weren't as eaten up. They weren't eaten up at all, actually.

The food was a step above the fish and nettle soup they used to have at the beginning of their life together, but just barely.

A lot of children looked at Crassus longingly as he helped Theanore eat, but he had apologized and told them all that he was not going to be doing any adopting early on.

Crassus was on board with seeing these children healthy, clothed, and educated. But he already had Theanore and Marinus to look after. Plus, the worker elves and now that gremlin.

Chapter 62: First expansion!