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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)

Grandpa Thinker looked through the evidence one more time. Everything pointed at Darion the Gremlin. And he had sent the cretin to little Theanore!

What if he sabotages her? Makes her dungeon into a death trap…

He clicked his boots three times, and he was in front of the grotto. It was early in the morning here, when it had been noon at Alerion.

Grandpa Thinker didn't even know if the family of three was awake yet.

He knocked on the door and Crassus answered. He was let inside and soon there was a cup of hot chocolate in his hands as everyone gathered around him.

"Darion the Gremlin is responsible for the bad things that happened in my home," Grandpa Thinker said grimly.

"But he made such a nice petting zoo! With harmless animals, too," she said, the grandpa looked down at his untouched hot chocolate.

Chapter 64: Confess