Food stalls are your salvation when you're in Alwaystree. Yes, that's the town's name. Now you can say the trees don't make more of an impression here than anyone else, but you haven't seen old man Leuth's award-winning pecan trees yet.
No, of course it isn't named after those. There used to be a tree here, or rather, they called it a tree because they didn't know what else to call it. It was tall and dark brown and had branches, but that was it. The trunk was straight, not gnarled, no knots. Nobody could chop it down either, and they sure tried.
They had to build around it in the end. That's a lesson for you, right? Keep being stubborn and they'll adjust. Anyway, it stood for centuries I hear.
Then one day, a man walked into town, right up to the tree. He drew a sword, and that sword looked strange too they said, but nobody there gave much detail. Not a lot of swordsmen around, you could say. He took out that sword and swung it, then the tree fell over. Yes, he cut right through.
Then he leaned over and took something out of the trunk, and some said he put it in the sword's hilt, but I don't know what I think about that. The whole tree disappeared right away. Nothing left.
A little while later word got around about how some hero finally killed Dulonax. Everyone here knew who did it. They didn't have any proof of course, but they knew. They put fruit in these rolls, you know.
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