Grandpa Thinker was checking the good list. In it, he saw the name of Theanore the nymph. The list was self-updating, so he couldn't blame his system for this.
He sighed.
Little Thea deserved to be on the good list. Her merman friend did too. But they had to learn not to judge others first. Grandpa Thinker had the perfect thing for them to change.
A group of adventurers!
He wrote the contract and gave a hefty reward: 1000 gold coins.
This was not an act of war, merely a test for the little nymph and her friend. Grandpa Thinker had made sure he wrote down that the dungeon core was a gold nugget and not the apple tree.
Little Thea was perfectly safe.
0000
The guildhall of Mirstone was in a buzz. The adventurers all wanted to check out this new dungeon in the Forest of Fireflies!
The core, which would earn them 1000 coins!
Not to mention all the loot they would find inside!
