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And who knew? Maybe she would even discover his age for her little sister That would most certainly be a treat

She licked her strawberry red lips in anticipation This was going to be fun

"You know, sister, I've found so this garden," Sedriil said froh as the Royal Klidnas, but branched out round like a spear, and grew a sht that be?" Mericlou said, avoiding a tiny brinefruit as it fell to the ground Extremely salty, its juice was once used as a preservative, but since it grew best in the wild and resisted all attempts at cultivation, its availability could not keep up with the demand, and the trees went extinct

"Watch your head," Sedriil said as he gently shook the branch A shower of brinefruit rained down He then scurried down to the cavern floor and began helping Mericlou pick theoing to tell e discovery'?" Mericlou said

"Sorry," Seriil said, reht "You kno you explained to us that all these plants are extinct species?"

"What about it?" Mericlou asked, gri at the taste of a bit of the berry juice that ran down her cheek and into her mouth

"This work is most definitely not what I'm used to," Sedriil commented as he and Mericlou carried the now full basket to the entranceway "But anyhen you lent s about some of these plants" He nodded towards a particularly odd-looking one that was about Mericlou's height It had twisting blue leaves, and a single, giant gray blossoround, like a near-ray Borska floas said to have been extinct for ten thousand years As a matter of fact, the only records of that plant are kept in the Republic Botanical Academy libraries It took me hours to hack their system for any kind of match before I found it The file was very obscure"

"H her concern at this new infore as what I found next," Sedriil said as he went to wash his hands in the stone basin beside the entranceway Mericlou followed, and afterwards, he led her deeper into the garden towards an unree that humans would use to decorate their lawns, except that its leaves were tipped with gold, and it grew clusters of an odd type of fruit They resee bananas