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The Keeper’s task had been suspiciously easy and the whole thing was anticlimactic. I’d expected his favour to be something big, like my first-born child or to drag Var back kicking and screaming. Maybe even an assasination request, but clearly I’d added drama to a scenario that didn’t require it.
Still. I had to remember that the difficulty of the task had nothing to do with the value of it. Even though it had only taken a couple of minutes out of my day and almost no effort on my part, that didn’t render my act worthless. I didn’t just plant a single acorn, I started a new forest.
The value of one. A concept I wasn’t very familiar with but that was giving me great strength.
I left the Forest underwhelmed but given how overwhelmed I’d entered, maybe that wasn’t a bad thing. Some of
