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You can see the other teams, but there is an invisible barrier preventing you from hearing them. You can assume that they can't hear you, either. There is a hefty serving of sweet wine and liquor, should you choose it. With a loaf of bread that you can slice. Nimue is in the center of the formation of teams, and when she speaks, you can hear her loud and clear.

"Storytelling has been a tradition of the knights of Camelot for some time. They would tell of the awesome feats of their king, and of their fellow knights... and... they were also prone to exaggeration in some cases."

There appears a small set of cards next to the liquor. You can read them, or you can implicitly understand them if you can't read.

"What feats have the heroes of Aather accomplished, I wonder? And what... exaggerations they may take? Before you, you will find prompts for your tales. You will write one for yourselves, for a set of knights, and for another team. I will select the most inspiring, as will your peers."

She tilts her head. "Ah, perhaps it is bad to encourage grandstanding..."

But before you can ask her, she vanishes.

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Stolen clothes, a burning orphanage

Blizzard and Hunter and the tale of the hidden moon.

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Amethyst, and the time they lost time.

What is "grandstanding"?

Trying to gain attention from an audience. I don't see anything wrong with it myself.

Shouldn't they be paying attention to us anyway?

Why wouldn't anyone want to pay attention to us?

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Exactly! If we're talking, of course they should be paying attention.

As long as we aren't shrieking like a howling cat, I agree.

[HUFFS] I don't see you being any more graceful.

*DUMPED IN SLIGHTLY LATE and very tired, though it's mostly in the way he moves*

Graceful? Are we performing? Hi...!

[SHRIEKS]

Miss...!

Where did you come from, you cretinous oaf!!

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[waves to Mithos]

Hey. As you can see, we got a cat recently.

[grabbing the front of his shirt and shaking him] Who is that!!

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What? But she's a lady!

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Aather orphanage was once a proud institution that helped young children find new homes. However, as time has passed, it became a place filled with unhappiness and cruelty! The matron, Miss Dark, a lady who often covered her face with a black veil, did not care about the kids whatsoever. She'd sometimes grab a kid by the hand and take them away and no one would ever know what happened to them.

In that same orphanage, there was a small group of kids that were quite attached to each other. Of course, they weren't related but after being shoved together, they ended up being a family anyway. Still, Miss Dark would do whatever she could to punish them and keep them from having any sort of happiness. One by one, Miss Dark would take them away but they tried their best to keep their chin up despite that.

. . . but one day, one of the kids, we'll call him Sebastian, had his most important person taken away from him by Miss Dark! He was extremely upset. That was when Sebastian decided enough was enough! He didn't want to wait and wait for someone to take them away from Miss Dark. Instead, they were going to burn down the orphanage and escape. They'd make their own paths!

So they shoved all of their clothes into the fireplace which caused a great big fire. They never did manage to find Sebastian's important person or the other kids but they do know that Miss Dark would never be able to hurt them again.

Later on, they found a place to live together and enjoyed peaceful days until they ended up running into Miss Dark, veil and all. Sebastian decided to challenge her to a duel! In the end, he won, dealing a finishing blow to Miss Dark. Realizing this was his chance to see Miss Dark's face, he decided to remove the veil. However, when he did, he found it was his most important person!

He couldn't believe what he saw . . . She was tricked into playing the role and now, she was there lying in his arms, fading away . . .

But then something. Something happened. Something unique happened . . . and suddenly, that was when he realized something. Even in the bleakest moments, miracles cannot be forgotten.

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You'll have to tune in next time to hear the end of the tale.

HE TRIED

The Amethyst family were timekeepers. They were responsible for watching over time. It was a tiresome job however. "Oh, I wish we could just give it away to someone else," they would often say. Because really. Sitting around and staring at clocks all day? Boring as dirt. They were chained to their clocks!

One day, they noticed something strange. The clocks had stopped moving. No, actually . . . they were moving backwards. The hands were practically spinning out of control, and they weren't sure what to do. And suddenly they stopped moving. And they knew something signficant happened.

They had lost time.

They were frantic, afraid of the chaos they might have just made. "What will we do? Is it our fault?" But if only they would realized that they never really lost "time". In fact, their wish had finally come true. Time was given to a young girl who had hers stolen away from her and so she was able to continue on living for just a little while longer. No chaos happened either! Things went on smoothly as if nothing ever happened. Amethyst also managed to avoid high blood pressure problems.

They never realized the good that they've done, but it was good nonetheless.

And the moral of the story is that sometimes selfish desires helps other people too.

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