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What A Dumb Idea...

2/22/2022

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As Arnie was approaching the hole to the cave, she noticed a bright blue ball flying around it.  "Oh no... I bet its a Wysp," groaned the young Borrower. 

Now Wysps are cousins to Pyksees and  love to pull a good practical joke even better than their cousins!  A Pyksee will spend days planning the perfect prank like  to hang a bucket of water over a tree branch and watching it pour over some unsuspecting traveler. While a Wysp will take advantage of the moment and just drop the bucket on the Pyksee who is waiting for the traveler to appear *lol*.  And no, they don't get along very well when left together in a room. 
It was soon apparent to Arnie that the Wysp had seen her as it started to fly towards her.  Arnie put on a brave smile and hoped that it would go away quickly.  "This is all I needed," Arnie thought to herself.
"Hi, whatcha doing?" asked the Wysp.

"Oh, nothing.  Just passing by," Arnie answered.  "Got to go, see you around."

​​"That's too bad," answered the Wysp.  "I was just going into a cave I found and was wondering if you wanted to go with me."
Arnie knew that she should leave and come back later when the Wysp was gone, but she wanted so badly to check out the rest of the tunnel.  Her need to see quickly overrode her common sense and decided she would take a chance.  "Okay, I guess.  I have time before I have to be anywhere," Arnie told the Wysp.
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​"That's great!  I can even light up the trail for us.  See you there."  Arnie barely heard the last part of the Wysp's comment as it quickly sped away towards the tunnel entrance.
Soon Arnie was down the hole and standing in the tunnel.  "I have already seen what is in the tunnel going down but as Squirrel said, let's see what is at the other end," she thought to herself when the Wysp asked which way she wanted to go.   "Let's explore up," she told the Wysp.  Deciding that the blue light the Wysp gave off was good enough to see, Arnie didn't bother to look for a torch or pull out a candle from one of her pockets.  "No sense wasting them if I don't have to," she figured as she followed the Wysp.
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Quickly it became apparent that this part of the tunnel was not in as good of shape as the other direction.  In a short distance, Arnie had to wade through a pool of foul smelling water, scuffed her shiny boots on a bunch of rocks and small stones, tumbled over a pile of gravel that shifted as she was climbing around it, and even walked through an area that small rocks and sticks would fall down and occasionally land on her tail.  
Soon she was scratched, wet, smelly, and the snarls in her tail which would take hours to get out...  "What a dumb idea Squirrel had," she thought as she kept following the Wysp.   ​
Little did Arnie realize, that a few feet from where the Wysp was leading her was a perfectly level path with nothing blocking the way.  "Oh wait until I tell the others about what I did today to a Borrower," the Wysp giggled as it continued to lead Arnie up the tunnel.
As Arnie was beginning to think that they should turn around and go back, she started hearing a roaring sound.  "I wonder what that is," she thought.  Again, her curiosity grabbed ahold of her and she knew she needed to keep going.  As the Wysp lead Arnie around yet another bend in the tunnel, the roar turned even louder.  "This is far as I go," she barely heard the Wysp say before it turned and flashed back down the tunnel. 

​Arnie was now standing alone in front of a wall of rushing water that was falling over the tunnel.  "That's just great!" growled Arnie.  "I should have known better."  As Arnie started feeling into one of her pockets for a light, it became apparent to her that the cave was not as dark as she thought it should be.  "Light must be coming in from the other side of all that water falling down from the wall," she realized.  Excited, she was now determined to see what was on the other side of the falling water.  Picking up a stick from the cave floor, she slowly pushed it through the falling water.  Nothing stopped it and soon her arm was pushing through the water.  "There must be an opening on the other side!"  Not wanting to go back through the tunnel and with the curiosity of a Borrower, Arnie decided to take a chance and stepped into the wall of water.
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It only took a few seconds, but Arnie realized once she was through that a waterfall was hiding the entrance to the cave she had been in.  "That's why nobody has found it before," she realized, "but I wonder where I am?"
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What A Brilliant Idea...

2/14/2022

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​​"You do know that we are close to the old oak tree right?," Squirrel told Arnie.  Arnie just shrugged and answered "So?"

​ ​"So... why not help me break open this nut?" asked the squirrel as he continued to fiddle with it.
A look of confusion crossed Arnie's face.  "Squirrel, what are you talking about?  Quit trying to crack that nut and help me figure out what to do..." ​
​"You're being a tough nut to crack too," snickered the Squirrel.  "It's simple - you could always go and put the tablet back."  The look on Arnie's face made Squirrel laugh even harder.  He could tell that his friend was still under the thrill of this latest 'find'.  Usually the attraction of a 'find' left Arnie within hours, but this new one was holding on to her longer than normal.  "What is it about this one that is different from anything else?" he asked as Arnie stared into one of her many pockets on her coat.

​It took a few minutes and at first Squirrel did not think his friend would answer, but finally Arnie looked up and whispered.
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"It is the first thing I truly have found that was not somebody else's first.  The Dragons are all gone and there are none to claim the tablet as their own so it truly is mine," she continued.  "I have never really had anything that was mine and now I find that I don't want to lose it.  Does that sound silly?" 
Squirrel had never heard his friend talk like this before and he was not sure what to tell her.  His life was easy in comparison to Arnie's.  All he needed to do was gather and store nuts while climbing up and down trees, but being Arnie's closest friend he knew he had to say something.  "You told me that when you fell down the hole that it really was a tunnel going up and down.  Did you explore the other direction?"
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Arnie's eyes lit up.  "Of course," she thought.  "What a brilliant idea! Why didn't I think of that," she muttered aloud. 

​"What was that?" asked Squirrel. 

"Oh, you truly are my best friend," Arnie told Squirrel as she gave him a big hug.  "Do you want to go exploring with me?"

​​Squirrel shrugged his shoulders as he continued trying to break open the nut. 
"Nope, I still don't have my winter stores stocked up and if all of the nuts I find are like this one, I'll starve before I get them cracked open."

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Arnie just laughed as she jumped up and started off towards the old oak tree.  "Good luck" whispered Squirrel as he bit down once more on the nut.
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The Nut Doesn't Drop ...

2/8/2022

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​Arnie was in a spot.  Here she had a tablet that she had discovered but she still had not found anyone to read it or what she should do with it.  
​As she contemplated her problem, humming the words to her song, (Blue on Blue, I Can't Get...) she wandered through the woods totally unaware of her surroundings until a small nut hit her on top of her head.  "Who threw that?" she demanded, stomping one of her feet on the acorn while searching around her for the culprit.  It did not take her long to see an old friend watching her from a tree branch nearby.
"Hi Arnie" said the Squirrel. 

"Good Morning, " Arnie replied. "You must have dropped one of your nuts because I can't imagine that you would throw one at me," grinned Arnie.  The squirrel only smiled back.  It was sort of a game they played with the squirrel never admitting to anything.  "You should have been a 'borrower' Squirrel.  Nobody would ever get you to confess," laughed Arnie.  Soon the two were chatting away over little things they had discovered lately when Arnie decided to tell her friend Her Big Secret. 
"You may think I am nuts," smiled Arnie at her own little joke, "but I found something the other day when we were playing around that big old oak tree that is driving me crazy and I don't know what to do."  Squirrel just lifted one eyebrow and waited for Arnie to continue.
"Do you remember when we where hopping from branch to branch in the old oak the other day?  In one of my jumps I saw something flash in the bushes below.  At first I thought it might be a pkysee since it was  out of the corner of my eye but then it happened again!  Anyhow, when I jumped down from the tree branch and started looking into the bush where I thought the flash had come from... all of a sudden the ground was gone and I fell into a deep hole." 
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Thinking back to that day, Arnie no longer even saw her friend as she continued to tell about her adventure.  All she could see in her mind was how dark the hole had been that she had fallen in.  Having a big bushy tail at times is a hinderance, especially when it knocks over things accidently, but this time it came in handy as it helped cushion her fall.  She continued to tell Squirrel the story, unaware that she was rubbing her tail as if it was still sore from landing on it.  She also remembered how strong the curiosity had burned inside of her too.  All Borrowers have it as they just can't leave things well enough alone, but only the great ones are not consumed by it (or they never live to become great ones...").  They always have to see what is on the other side and then figure out what to do about it.
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"To my surprise Squirrel, I discovered I had fallen into a cave instead of just a hole.  The tunnel went in two different directions with one leading upward and one leading down.  I decided down and only walked a short distance before the tunnel opened into to a very large space.  Oh, it was a Borrower's Dream! There must have been some light coming into the cavern as it was reflecting off of piles of gold and gemstones scattered everywhere around the cave.  
​They were shiny and I did consider looking them over but before I could, something else caught my eye.  In the center of the cavern was a stone alter and laying on it was a tablet!"
Not realizing that Squirrel was only partially listening to Arnie as he was busy trying to break open an unusually difficult nut, Arnie continued...
"I had heard the old timers talk about Dragon hordes but never realized what that meant  before!  The thrill of something new to find pulled me to the alter.  At first I thought maybe it was something the Dragon might have picked up to add to his treasure.  You know, like a wizard's spell book or something magical, but that didn't 'feel' right if you know what I mean.  It was placed on the podium like it was sitting in a place of honor."  Arnie did not know how to better describe it, but if she hadn't been a 'Borrower' she might not have touched it because it would have felt wrong to disturb it as it was so beautiful to see.
"I'm was only going to look at it," she remember as she told Squirrel, "but I didn't. I reached out and touched it.  It was at that moment the ground began to shake and the long stalactites started to fall from the ceiling of the cavern.  Instinctively I grabbed the tablet to protect it.  When the first stone hit the podium where the tablet sat, I RAN - keeping the tablet to my chest as I sprinted out of the cave opening I had just come from."
Taking a deep breath as she finished with her story, she looked again at her friend and after a minute of silence asked Squirrel the question that had been nagging at her when she had been walking down the trail.  "So what do you think I should do with it?" 
The Squirrel looked at her and with a slight squirrely smile said "Yep, that is a tough nut to crack isn't it?" 
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Opening the Unknown...

2/1/2022

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​After the Nytemare returned the Baron and Dowager to the Baron’s mansion, it quickly departed back to the Shadows King’s stable while Griselda and her son shared a pot of tea before reading the book they had taken from Atian’s library.​

​“What are we looking for mother,” asked the Baron.  “I saw how the Dragon image glowed on the cover when we discovered it, but what do you expect to find in the book?"
​“I don’t really know,” she answered.  “I really wasn’t sure we would even find a book when we went to Atian’s library.  But, I guess I could say it found us,” she realized as she thought back to how her tattoo and the book both started glowing when she reached out her hand to pick it up.  Glancing at the book as she set her cup of tea on the table, she decided they might as well start trying to decipher it since the book appeared to be written in ancient Dragon.  "It was going to be a long night reading through such a thick tome," the Dowager thought as she stood and started towards the book.  She whispered to herself her son’s question,  “What am I looking for?”
"Long, long time ago..."
​At her question the image of the Dragon on the cover began to swirl and a green light appeared as the book opened by itself and quickly flitted through several pages to a stop!  Slowly words began to appear before the startled pair!  As this was all happening the Baron had shot to his feet to protect his mother and now stood besides her  with the open book resting on the table.
The Dowager quickly started fanning herself as to not faint as the Baron stood there stupefied.  Griselda looked at her son and said "I think we are going to need some help.  I better contact the Sleeping Sisters!"
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