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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)

Hades threw the fish back at Elmar. It landed in Elmar's teacup. Elmar didn't mind. He was not going to drink from it either way.

"You have no restraint," Hades chided and Elmar smiled at him, the last fits of laughter leaving his system. "You have to measure your words more carefully. What were you thinking, saying bane of the moon?"

"How do you know that was what I said in my mind?" Elmar asked.

Hades regarded him like he was just a foolish child.

"This is my domain," the deity answered. "Nothing escapes me here. Now, that you have the life-extending ring, when are you going for the other two?"

"Well, can't it wait for a couple of years? I have the right to remain at the orphanage for another three years," Elmar asked, but Hades' blank expression didn't give him much hope.

"No, I have been waiting for five thousand years. I can't even talk to my wife."

Chapter 96: The Group of Friends