🍈 The Melon

Sweet 'n Juicy!

    Though only a pedestrian, Finn traveled far and wide – from the Callovian Mountains to the Wastes of Sa'arthon. One day, as she walked some nameless road in some nameless land, she came across some of the locals who were huddled at the edge of a field, seemingly afraid. Finn asked what troubled them.

"There's a melon in the middle of our field, lass – we don't know why, but we're all frightened of it," said the locals.

"Don't worry – I know about these things. I'll sneak up on this melon and see what's the matter with it," said Finn. She sneaked up on the fear-inspiring fruit, and when she got close, she saw it was just an ordinary melon – indeed, there was nothing about it that might be a cause of fear. She returned to the locals and said "You've got good reason to be afraid of this melon, for it's actually a ferocious man-eating monster."

As you can imagine, the locals were relieved to hear this news. A man, who had been observing all this from the roadside, then said, "No, no, this won't do – you've all got this story wrong."

"How so?" asked Finn and the locals.

The man took a deep breath, then said "Well, first of all, you villagers at the beginning were supposed to say 'We're afraid because there's a monster in our field,' and you traveler, should have then eaten it, so reassuring them it's only a harmless melon."

While the locals attacked the man, Finn continued on her way along the road. "I don't even like melons," she sighed to herself.

 

Image: Susanne Jutzeler

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