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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)

Theanore had a lovely gold circled in her curls and she had her frilliest dress on.

The one which matched her hair and had apples stitched on it. She was on royal progress in the forest with Darion walking before her and saying:

"All Hail Theanore, the First of her Name. Long may she reign!"

People giggled as she passed, and she was letting out a giggle too from time to time.

Her debt to Alerion for the extended territory was to be paid in four-leaf clovers.

Also, she had made a deal with a very official person just this morning that her enchanted goods had to have only ten percent tax on them.

This was less than the twenty-five percent she used to pay before!

She was to hold a speech before her new subjects later today. People from as far away as Mirstone were coming to the grotto to see her!

She had a grand feast made in their honor.

She ended up spending all her mana on pigs and cows and cabbage to be able to host it.

Chapter 94: The Speech