The Storyteller: The Monster Hunter's Tale

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Fifth Birthday

The construction of the jetty was finally underway when Tu rowed up for her sixth visit. Tu’s gold from two years ago had been a major talking point in Jita. There was enough to buy a jetty and labour, certainly, but should they buy better wood to make the jetty last longer but risk building it themselves? Or should they buy the same wood that the other small towns used and hire people who knew what they were doing? Finally, shortly after Tu’s last visit when the captain had expressed disappointment at the lack of progress, Sula had made the decision for them. They purchased wood from Llayad and labour from Ryas to build it properly, though everyone in the village helped out.

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The Storyteller: Romance on the High Seas

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Sixth Birthday

The magnificent Horizons was bigger than Sen had ever imagined, and she had been imagining this moment all year. It was a beautiful day, just as she had hoped, the sky bright blue and with a gentle waft of wind from the sea that brought the Horizons safely into the bay. As she watched the ship approaching from the end of the jetty, it just kept getting bigger and bigger. There must be more people living on that one ship than there were in the whole village of Jita, Sen thought.

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The Storyteller: The End

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Seventh Birthday

The sun was just kissing the ocean in the distance as Horizons finally pulled into the jetty. The whole crew came ashore now, though it was still only Tu that Sen was interested in seeing. She ran up the jetty, bare feet thundering on the wood, and threw herself at the big captain in an equally big hug. Kaiji wasn’t far behind.

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