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Xenophobia Wars

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Challenge #04511-L127: To Choose Peace

"Would you side with these people against me?? You are just like me! Trufel!"

I am nothing like you. I believe in compassion.

"They will hate you and destroy everything you love!"

And I will forgive them.

"WHY??"

Because someone has to be the first to let go of the hate and try something else. -- Anon Guest

[AN: I looked up 'Trufel' and couldn't find more than a corruption of 'truffle' So I'm assuming that's a name]

Trufel took a deep breath to steady their shaking bones. Fearing Akaju's wrath. "I'm going," they said. "You can't stop me."

Akaju seethed, but ze seethed without lashing out. "This ongoing war has killed too many with it's battles. Too many have already been sacrificed in the battles between Elf and Dragon. Between Elf and Troll. Between Elf and D'varuv. Between Elf and Harukh. And you will now throw yourself against the devils they summoned to drive us to extinction?"

Trufel found it increasingly easy to swallow the urge to throw a tantrum about Akaju's speciesism. No Elves had had a whole family for thousands of years. "If someone doesn't try another way," they said, "Who will?"

"I will not bury you," said Akaju. "Take what you think you need, but you are already dead. The devils that the Humans keep will gnaw your bones." Ze cut Trufel dead, returning to taking inventory of their supplies. "May your next incarnation possess more sense."

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Challenge #04045-K027: In the Darkest Years

A rumor was going around that living unwelcome peoples were Good Luck Charms. People were hunting hellkin to knock out and cut off their horns, capturing kobolds to steal some scales, and other such actions. -- Lessons

Ward off unwelcome fate with that of unwelcome form, -- Old Human Superstition.

It's honestly amazing how simple statements can turn to misinterpretation. The origin came from a distant settlement that paid host to the Unwelcome. They found their troubles almost halved at first, and

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