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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)

The children moved in the very next day.

Theanore had a grant time showing them the grotto and a lot of them stopped by the pool cavern to fish. They let the fish back inside the pool after they caught them, though.

Now that the dungeon grounds were an orphanage, the family petitioned the Emperor for protection. What they wanted were guards stationed at the entrance points of the forest of fireflies.

The forest of fireflies' guardians also came to protect the forest and Theanore's apple grotto. Larriel had been all but mobbed by girls wanting to become healers. It was a nice position in any party.

And so, Larriel performed tests on the children to see which of them were good enough magically to become healers.

Some children were dejected, but a lot of them passed the test. Larriel was freed from guard duty to start teaching them. Brandon looked as Larriel was surrounded on all sides by children and thought that it suited her.

Chapter 79: My children!