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When the aliens made contact, we learned they had observed us for millennia.
"Yes. We installed the magic soak on your moon around your 500BCE."
"The what?"
"To drain the natural magic, so you would focus on technology instead. But we have turned it off now."
"Teach us!"
"Er..."
"You owe us!"
"I yield!" the dragon cried at last.
It crawled away, leaving the way to its lair open to the knight.
"Princess!" he called out. "I've come to bring you back!"
A figure emerged from the cave, wearing an odd mix of armour parts, and carrying a pollaxe.
"Fuck you," the princess growled. "Make me!"
Deep in the forest, a forgotten temple ruin overgrown by moss is the final resting place of an old god.
A stone is heaved aside, sunlight warms ancient flagstones.
An offering is placed on the altar - salt, bread, oil.
A prayer is said: "If you can help, do so. If not, persist."
It is answered.
"Can you open one of these?" the treasure hunter asked.
He showed the witch an egg shell, with an intricate pattern of silk thread knotted around it.
"Put that back!"
"There's something inside, it must be valuable. But when-"
"Someone locked their grief away. Break one, and it's yours."
"Oh..."
"I am dying, with only a few months left. And the pain grows every day." The emperor made a grimace. "You'll finally get paid."
"I won't kill you for money," the assassin said. "Not anymore."
"Would you kill me for the sake of friendship?"
Nobody saw the assassin leave, after.
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The emperor was sitting in his bed when the assassin came in through the window.
"Welcome, old friend."
"Wait," the assassin wheezed.
The emperor waited for him to catch his breath.
"I'm too old for this," the assassin said at last.
The emperor smiled. "It's been over sixty years since the first time you came to kill me."
"Mm. And a dozen times more. Yet you are still alive. You always were persuasive."
"I hope I still am. I would ask you to do it now."
"What?"
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