Don't worry about me! It'll take more than this to make me falter. Once, I got caught in a thunderstorm like this with my brother after we'd gone collect mushrooms - we were still small, then -, and the ground turned terribly slippery, but we still made it home!
[For them, little as they were, that seemed like the end of the world... but in reality, it likely wasn't half as bad as the tempest they're facing right now, and she withholds the part of the story where they hid in a hollow tree and let the worst of it pass - after all, they're unlikely to encounter such shelter here.]
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Don't worry about me! It'll take more than this to make me falter. Once, I got caught in a thunderstorm like this with my brother after we'd gone collect mushrooms - we were still small, then -, and the ground turned terribly slippery, but we still made it home!
[For them, little as they were, that seemed like the end of the world... but in reality, it likely wasn't half as bad as the tempest they're facing right now, and she withholds the part of the story where they hid in a hollow tree and let the worst of it pass - after all, they're unlikely to encounter such shelter here.]