Key to Survival

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"Candor: I'm frightened," Opaline said as they approached the local Traveler's Exchange. "I've never been away from Sourberry before."

"We know, dear, and we're frightened for you," her mother Silver said, hugging her fondly.

"We'd rather keep you at home," her father Copper said. "But you'll need to find employment and get married, and there are no local prospects. You should do better at Triumph City, where folk are more liberal."

"But it's such a big city, and so far away," Opaline said. "In between are strangers and brigands and strange magic. It daunts me awfully."

"That's why we want you to travel in company," Silver said.

"A man who will guide you and protect you," Copper agreed. "No fault."

"But no fault means I'll have to give him sex."

"Not necessarily," her mother said, a bit primly.

"Nine and a half times out of ten," Opaline said. "And the others are skipped because they are repulsive."

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