Flowercrash
“The only source was the moat around the Shrine, but danger lay there in the form of the stone-spitting trumpet plants, not to mention sarcastic guards. One evening Nuïy crept along the outer wall to the east gate, where he reasoned fewer plants would lurk. They were light sensitive and tended to sink to the bottom of the moat during night hours to collect gravel for the next day’s attacks. However, two guards stood at the gate, dozing over their halberds. Nuïy tried to think how to get out. Ret...urning would pose no problem, since he only needed to pretend that he had left through another gate. Anyway, he was famous now, and would like as not be unchallenged. But how to get out without signed papers?In the end he could only think of the classic distraction ruse. He set up a sack of meal on a rope, cut the strands until one remained, then waited hidden by a tree near the gate. After a few minutes the strand gave, there was a crash of metal bins and bricks, and then the hissing sound of escaping corn.“What be that?”MoreLess
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