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A long, long time ago...

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As long as no one remembers...

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... a king lived
here in the castle.

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And his daughter, the
lovely Princess Miamaja.

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Although it was a
real fairytale king, -

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- then they were not fairytale rich.

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The great country of Montania
demanded a war reparation:

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'The King's Weight in Gold'.

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The king was rather fat and
they didn't have much gold.

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Therefore, the king's sister
suggested that he should go on a diet.

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- Is that good enough?
- It is not poisoned. That much I can say.

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But if it's good
enough breakfast for a christian human...

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Thanks Sysmund.
He just has to answer what was asked.

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Very well. Then it's good enough...
For a king, but not for his mouthpour.

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Give it to Gregor.
He hasn't eaten in days.

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He can't have
waited for this one.

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Isn't it a blessed feeling
to spare his meat for the fatherland?

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More honey-mead, Sysmund.

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- What kind of drink is that?
- Water, dear brother.

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Water? Should I drink it?

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It is from the holy
spring in the Norreforest.

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It is good for body and soul.

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It's a shame. Don't you want
just a small piece of lamb chops?

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For every gram your father loses,
we must obtain one less gram of gold.

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In tact with you shrink,
our debt shrinks.

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And finally when I'm completely
gone, I'm also debt-free.

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A strange game...
I wonder if there is a Christmas room already?

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- It's a rocker, isn't it?
- No, a scale.

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Humans use it to find out
whether an object is light or heavy.

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- Why don't they just try to lift it as we do?
- That's how they are, my boy.

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Humans do things in
the most difficult way.

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Miamaja, come here, my girl.

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Will you hold the regals for a moment.

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Let me, Sire.

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- There are no more solders?
- No, Dad.

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What shall we do, Count Rabsenfuchs?

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Rabsenfuchs!

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Dear Count...
What are you thinking?

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Excuse me.

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Thought if we put the crown on
the second weight bowl?

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- The crown?
- It's the pure gold.

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Out of the question.

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The crown is more than gold.
The crown is the crown!

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There is much other gold
here at the castle. Like this.

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No, my child. Not the chain. it belonged to
your blessed mother.

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Mom would have given it
with the greatest joy... and more.

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Yes, naturally, Miamaja...
You are quite right.

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We must all make our sacrifices.

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- Don't they talk about Christmas?
- No, only about gold.

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- Uhm, Christmas fried twists.
- For Christmas, little daddy.

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I usually taste them then.

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Just a single one to see if
they are as they usually are.

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They are...
And you're getting too fat.

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- Who will then?
- I can do that, Father Magnum.

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It's time for me to do
something for the food as you always say.

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Hear the child... little dad, isn't
he just adorable.

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- What are you going to do with the crumbs?
- The pigeons must live, or are they on starvation diet, too?

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Just give the pigeons.
They fly it off.

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Shame on you, little daddy.
No snatching the fried twists.

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- They are to hang together with the Christmas wreaths.
- That's true.

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Sibbe, clotch major.
Grab the ball though.

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You have to stay in shape.
En garde!

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It's surely, it's true, december

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it's the day before the day
before the day you know

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and anyone who
wants to put a damper

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on our joy, we will immediately
notify him

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let us forget that the
world is false and hollow

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It's surely, it's soon, it's Christmas.

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The menu at the king's table:

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Croquettes Royale
delicieuses de la mumm!

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The king's own menu:

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Biscuits ordinaire natural
de la ouch.

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Sysmund, aren't you
going to taste this?

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No thanks, it's pure poison... to me.
My stomach can't endure such weak diet.

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But for the King, it's splendid.

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Out of the question!

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I will not sit in my own castle and
watch that gluttony.

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While pitiful I have to
live off a dry stick.

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The king must take
the lead, but it's not written, he has to alone.

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If it has to starve,
let it starve!

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But then everyone must
stand with their king.

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Which in effect does:

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From today everyone in the
castle, high and low, must go on starvation diet.

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Lumpy food, sweet mead and
sweets will no longer be tolerated.

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Anyone who transgresses this
commandment incurs my royal wrath and punishment!

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Gone with erverything, out!

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Well done, Dad! A funny idea.
We all have to fasten.

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Excellent, dear brother.
A royal speach. I love salad.

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'High as low'?
Did the King say that?

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- They don't apply to us, do they?
- Oh? We are not very tall as far as I know.

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I'm just about up to here.

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How much do you think they will leave
for us if they themselves are hungry?

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- What a Christmas it will be.
- There's only one thing to do; we have to go get started.

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Yes. Which go-hall, father Magnum?

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We must begin what is
our destiny as elves, especially as Castle elves.

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That which is our nature.

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What is our nature,
Father Magnum?

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when you are in elves learning
you must use your elf bulb

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if an elf, one wants to be

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one must be an animal-friend
friend with mice and ants,

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firstly, one must be a tease
with real mischief mind

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when teasing, it is important
to start a little cautiously

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so you learn to tease right.

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you can start by
making clocks stop,

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it's easy to learn
for a prankster

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with a real mischief mindset

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the king's beer in the king's
barrel can then be started

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slowly to dilute

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with a cupful of Christmas snow,
the beer becomes a thin cup of tea

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only a real prankster
brews like that

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with a real mischief mindset

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you don't need to
touch to open all doors

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just take some fishing line

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with a line and a
hook all coffin lids rattle

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that's just the
thing for a prankster

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with a real mischief mindset

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all good pranksters
know when the time is right

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to stop and disappear

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you can't be seen,
it has yet to happen

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you have to be a
completely invisible prankster

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with a real mischief mindset.

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- I have an idea.
- I also have a idea.

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Let's go over to the
inn and eat a stuffed capun.

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- Nonsense!
- My words, lord king.

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- Get me Atralius in here.
- Astralius?

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What are we going to do with the old
star teller? He can less than his 'Father thou are...'

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- Is he not still on the payroll?
- Yes, as a school teacher.

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- He has to invent me a drink.
- What kind of drink, if I may ask?

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A drink that makes you lose weight.

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Nothing else. You can just drink
the thin smat beer they brew in the basement.

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Off! Or I'll iron
your back pieces.

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Too much honor for
a mean man like me. Will go and find him on the double.

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Father Magnum! Look!
The king has sweets in the cupboard.

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Exalted...

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Exalted Ruler!

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Mild meringue. I stand here Astralius...

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It's me, who waves... Uhu.

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Surely, highest Majesty.

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Clear as bright Sirius
beckoning in all his glory —

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- to the humble star
Coreolan, who would say:

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Come only daringly and neigh
in my radiant light.

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Thanks, that's enough with the compliments.

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Now we'll see if he
can also earn his living -

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- by other than words and caseloaders.

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If it is war, your
decency contemplates, -

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- then the stars are in the
most favorable position.

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War? No, by the sourest sage it isn't.

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You must make me a
potion with a special effect.

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Skarntyde! It is dead-proof.

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- Who will 'enjoy' the drink?
- Me, nutjob and it doesn't have to be a poison drink.

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- Injury.
- Is it bad that I don't take poison?

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Sweetest, no. But humblest,
I'm good at poison.

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It must be a drink that makes
me thin around the waist.

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- Thin as a hunting hound! Understand?
- Woof!

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Yes, Your Highness. Very accurate.

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Can I, Father Magnum?
Wall in the cage ...uh... drill in the wall?

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I know where it is.
Completely almost circa.

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You can measure from the
corner there, to where the hole should be.

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That will be 4 sock
lengths and 3 elf hats.

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1-2-3-4...

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1-2-3...

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That's right, Father Magnum.
Just about in the spider's web.

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- May I drill just once, Father Magnum?
- Let go then.

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A tablespoon of extract
of the wormwood root -

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- mixed with hazelnut
decoction and rune grass rhyme.

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This should simmer for
1/2 hour at approx. 125 degrees.

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While we in the meantime
prepare the formula.

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A copper pan is easily
smeared with snail tracks -

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- drawn on oak wood at full moon.

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- It must be fresh raw materials. It's alpha omega.
- Enough, enough... Just get started.

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- We don't have the raw materials.
- What goods?

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Long time since last... We must also have some bog
brew and half a worm ham...

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So get it. The King still
has some credit.

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It must be gathered
in the forest at night.

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I old man dare not.

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- Send a young one, the new hunter boy.
- Yes, he is a pure devil. Per definition.

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If he runs across a
hare, let him take it home.

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Sysmund, go along and explain everything to
the hunter, before Astralius talk my ear off.

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Off... Gone with you both.

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I have things and cases to study.

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Oh, Sysmund!

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A little down...

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Up, up...

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Up again.

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Fine, fine.

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Let go... Away with you!

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- What is wrong?
- Someone pulls at the other end. Grab onto me.

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Away... Mice and little crawlers.
It's my licorice!

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What are you doing there, bro?

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I just found this
one... Licorice.

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See what I found at
the scoundrel here.

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Confetti!

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- I have forbidden that.
- Namely.

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And where did he get it from?

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Out of sheer fright, my
brain has shortcutted.

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It has been that way for many years.
Give me my confetti...

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Give me that confetti now!

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I'll keep it...
and the ugly licorice stick.

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Thanks. We're certain nothing
wrong happens then!

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Sysmund... you are... you are...

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Hungry.

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Shall I take out the
chamber stake, princess?

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Miamaja?

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