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Chapter 17: The Fishing Lesson
Author: Oma Lisha
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Morning came with the smell of pine and the sound of water rushing over stones.

I woke to find Aldric already up, rummaging through the cabin's storage chest with the enthusiasm of someone on a mission. He pulled out two fishing rods that had seen better days, their lines tangled and their hooks rusted from years of neglect.

"Perfect," he declared, holding them up like trophies. "These are absolutely terrible, which means we're guaranteed to catch nothing. It's going to be wonderfully frustrating."

"You're surprisingly excited about guaranteed failure."

"That's because failure doesn't matter when there's no Script dictating the outcome." He tossed me one of the rods. "Out here, we can be incompetent without it meaning anything about our destinies. It's liberating."

We spent the next hour attempting to untangle the lines, a task that should have taken ten minutes but stretched longer because neither of us really knew what we were doing. Aldric's fingers kept slipping on the thin cord,
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