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Carnelian

[ You are sitting in small, dark room with earthen walls, and no window or doors – but it’s filled with apples. There’s a fireplace embedded in one wall, with a cheerfully roaring fire. The dirt floor is covered in a plush Persian carpet and an array of cushions, and in front of the fire is a low table. On the table is a pencil with an eraser, twenty red slips of paper, five green slips of paper, and one rolled up scroll. Unrolled, it reads:

Let’s keep this one easy for everyone.

Write one noun on every red slip of paper (that’s a person, place, or thing, like “Aather” or “Cheshire” or “cat”). Write one adjective (that describes a noun, like “clever”) on every green slip of paper – oh, and rank them, so I know which ones are your favorites. Toss them all into the fire when you’re finished.

You’re forbidden to use team names.

The note is signed with an inky pawprint. ]

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[writes out a succession: "1. mushroom. 2. haunch. 3. incest. 4. hat. 5. pickaxe 6. heart 7. Aather 8. Maleficent 9. memory 10. fish"]

How do these sound?

They look good to me. I think I can manage not to copy them.

[ Writing out "Hitman, pizza, rose, turtle, jacuzzi, ninja, tower, alcohol, three-piece suit, library" on separate papers himself. ]

There.