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"Thank you, Raleigh." Kai nods, "I'll take a look around, and see how everyone is doing." With that Kai took off to the farmlands in the area. People were working hard this day, rushing to get as many berries in. As he wandered around, he overheard a loud voice, which had a heavy accent to the common tongue, “Eh? What do you mean you just call these berries, ‘thorn berries’? Let me tell you something, what we call these, Thunderberries, that’s what. You know why? Because of you’ll feel the thunder in your head the next morning after drinking the ale made of these berries! Hahaha! Here, how about I buy some seeds from you…”
Kai walked towards the accented voice. Ahead of him up on the hill and just over a large fence was a dwarf. Shield, hammer, scale armor, textbook. Kai had never seen a dwarf, or any thing that was not human, other than himself, of course. The figure talking to the dwarf says,
“Ha! Thunderberries? That’s a good name! You want seeds? Just cut off a branch and plant it, see if it’ll grow. We’ve never seen these berries with seeds, but we know that the thorns take root where they can, take a couple of smaller ones if you want, not sure if they’ll grow where you are. Careful with the thorns though, they've got poison in them.”
The dwarf gives hearty thanks and began harvesting some of the thorny vines. Taking out a dagger he begins to meticulously cut off some of the smaller portions. Kai, curious as to how this is done, walks forward, resting his glaive on his shoulder, “Um, excuse me, but you said thunderberries? What about these berries that makes it thunderous?”
The dwarf turns and looks at Kai, slightly surprised, “Well, a Graced! I didn’t expect to see one of you out here! Look here, these berries, when mixed in with a brew after a little bit of aging, will give you quite the thunderous feel the next morning! Haven’t you had that feeling after a good night’s worth a drinking?”
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