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Welcome back everybody to the 
Minecraft Short Stories podcast.

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In this episode, I will be 
telling the second part to 

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Thomas's story, The Traveler. 
I did the first part in the last

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let's get right into it. 
The Traveller the second part by

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Thomas. 
Once again we settled into a new

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routine with a stranger every 
few Suns that would emerge from 

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its house and trade with various
members of the village. 

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Our emeralds were now something 
that we prized, for with them we

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could trade for the strangers 
wealth. 

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What it did within the stone 
brick walls of its house none of

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us could imagine. 
Once it even traded with 

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priests, selling priests the 
pungent flesh of the zombie 

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creatures for emeralds. 
The priest surmised that the 

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stranger must have slain the 
zombies while about whatever 

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mysterious tasks it performed 
below the ground. 

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However, even priests seem to 
have finally accepted this 

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newest and strangest member of 
our village. 

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I've made maps of our new 
village. 

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The stranger even purchased one 
for me. 

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No one in the village had ever 
taken an interest in my maps, or

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should they? 
I myself had wondered at their 

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usefulness, but priesthood told 
me that all of us were born to a

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unique purpose, and mine was to 
make maps and other tools of 

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travel which no one ever used 
until now. 

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The stranger must be a 
traveller. 

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Indeed, it had travelled to our 
village before settling here. 

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That is when it struck me. 
This was not a stranger, but a 

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traveller. 
That same son. 

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I told Priest of my revelation. 
Priest muttered to himself, 

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thinking over my words. 
Maybe, right Cartographer, but 

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it seems this traveller has 
decided to cease its wanderings 

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and live among us. 
Perhaps it is no longer a 

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traveller. 
The very next sun, as if to 

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prove Priest wrong, the 
traveller left its house and 

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returned to where it had left 
its boat on the edge of the 

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village. 
He climbed into the boat and 

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sailed away to the South from 
whence it came, and went down to

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where the wooden Rd. extended 
into the water and watched as a 

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traveller sailed away out of 
sight. 

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Eventually, lost in the blue 
haze of distance. 

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I wondered where it was going, 
what the maps of those places 

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would look like. 
Perhaps it would return and 

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bring me some. 
I would trade as many emeralds 

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as the traveler demanded for 
such a map. 

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But it did not return that sun, 
or the next, or the one after 

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that. 
The mood in the village was 

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strangely subdued. 
It seemed that more of the 

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villagers than just myself had 
grown accustomed to having this 

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creature among us, even priestly
melancholy when he told us that 

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the traveller had probably left 
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I had taken to climbing to the 
top of the watch chart, near 

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where the traveller had 
departed, and looking out over 

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the sea, wondering at what 
strange new places the traveller

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had found. 
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travel as well, but that would 
have been certain death. 

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And then, just before high sun 
of the 6th Suns since its 

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departure, I saw the traveller's
boat approaching from the South.

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I hurried into the village to 
tell everyone that the traveller

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had returned. 
You shrewd is the same. 

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One Priest asked question dashed
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I had no way of knowing. 
Even Priest had not concerned at

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first that a traveller was not 
the same stranger he had seen so

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many moons ago. 
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No sooner had the traveller 
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village than a made its way into
its house. 

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It came out, harvested and 
replanted its crops and came out

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to trade with us. 
This began a new routine. 

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Every moon or so the traveller 
would depart towards the South 

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and its boat and would return in
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Where it was going or what it 
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None of us had any inkling, 
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one who truly wondered. 
Our village prospered as never 

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before. 
Traveller built new houses in 

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our village, put down beds and 
our numbers grew, and even built

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workhouses for new workers that 
never been present in our 

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village. 
Leathersmiths, fletchers and 

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shepherds. 
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number of protectors in the 
village grew as well, their iron

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bodies lumbering throughout the 
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Then the routine changed again. 
Traveller left the village, as 

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they had been doing for many 
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it did not return. 
The 7th sun passed, and then a 

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moon, then a second moon. 
The Traveller is not coming 

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back. 
Cartographer, Priest told me as 

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I climbed down from the 
watchtower just before sunset. 

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It has left us. 
I fear you are right. 

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I agreed. 
It is of no consequence, Priest 

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assured me. 
We have 4 protectors now. 

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Our fields are larger than ever 
before. 

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The village is safe. 
Priest was right. 

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Even another stranger could not 
harm us now. 

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Surely 4 protectors could 
overcome even one such as that. 

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But we were not as safe as we 
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It's been 2 moon since I'd last 
climbed the watchtower to look 

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for the traveler. 
I had gone back to my daily 

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routine of making maps that no 
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something have been different 
about one of them. 

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The map was not blank, nor was 
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Was a map of some terrain I'd 
never seen. 

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And there was a red XA little 
South and a little east of the 

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center of the map. 
I would spend evenings just 

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staring at it. 
Where did this lead? 

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The position indicator on the 
edge of the map showed that I 

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was almost due West of wherever 
this map indicated. 

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Part of me yearned to find it, 
but such thoughts were sheer 

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madness. 
Away from the village, from the 

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Protectors. 
I would die after the first 

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sunset, if not before. 
I stepped out into the morning 

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light, one of the Protectors, 
Lombard past me. 

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Lancing briefly in my direction.
I turned and headed towards my 

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shop. 
My work here seemed pointless 

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ever since the traveller had 
left. 

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At least the farmers provided us
with food. 

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Then I heard the village bell 
ring all around me. 

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My fellow villagers fled to the 
nearest buildings. 

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The church was closest to me and
I fled inside. 

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Priest was already inside, as 
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It's a raid, armorsmith. 
Said Pillagers. 

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My heart clenched at the news. 
A village had not seen pillagers

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for my entire life. 
According to Elder Farmer, the 

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village had almost been 
destroyed by the last one. 

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Only Elder Farmer and Priesthood
survived by hiding in a cave 

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outside the village. 
Everyone else here was their 

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descendants. 
It will be all right, Reese 

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said. 
We have 4 protectors. 

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I looked out the window to the 
West as Priesthood said the 

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protectors were already rushing 
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The Raiders were fearsome 
looking, Gray and stern, 

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carrying crossbows. 
I gasped when the first 

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protector fell to their attack. 
Granted, it had killed several 

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of them, but there were so many 
more. 

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Another protector fell and 
became clear that they would all

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be defeated. 
Weaponsmith, I said. 

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Do you have a sword? 
I do, he replied. 

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Why give it to me, I commanded. 
He fumble in his pockets for a 

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moment. 
I can't, he said in the smay. 

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Why couldn't he give me the 
sword? 

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Farmer gave us bread. 
Weaponsmith had been able to 

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give swords to the Traveller, 
but but it didn't actually give 

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them to the Traveller, I 
realized. 

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I reached into my pockets and 
with more effort than I expected

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it to take, pull down emerald. 
I'll trade you one emerald for a

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sword. 
I shouted. 

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That did it. 
Weaponsmith was able to give me 

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the iron sword and take the 
emerald. 

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The iron blade in my hand made 
me feel strangely powerful. 

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My arms swelled with the 
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I turned to Armorsmith. 
What do you have? 

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I asked. 
I have an iron helmet and an 

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iron breastplate. 
He replied. 1 emerald for each. 

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I said. 
This time the emeralds were 

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easier to withdraw. 
Soon I was wearing the helmets 

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and breastplate with the sword 
and hands. 

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Priest, weapon Smith and armored
Smith huddled together in the 

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back of the church, staring at 
me as if I were one of the 

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endermen that was sometimes an 
appeared in our village without 

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warning. 
Cartographer, what are you 

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doing? 
Priest demanded. 

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What has to be done? 
I replied. 

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Then I opened the door of the 
church and stepped out into the 

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village. 
I heard a cry from the right and

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ran towards it. 
Elder Farmer was desperately 

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trying to hold the door to its 
Hut closed while three pillagers

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tried to get in. 
I charged into them. 

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It seemed as if I moved as fast 
as a traveller itself. 

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I hacked into the pillager 
closest to me, driving it away 

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from the door, then hacked to 
the next closest, driving it 

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away. 
The three of them turned to face

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me, raising their crossbows. 
I should have asked Armorsmith 

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if he had a shield as well. 
I charged and slew the first 

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pillager. 
The other two also dropped 

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quickly, but not before I'd been
wounded. 

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I ate a loaf of bread to heal 
myself and glanced around the 

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village. 
Two of the Protectors were still

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standing, but they were 
obviously wounded. 

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Their iron skins were cracked 
and gouged. 

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Food healed us. 
Perhaps iron would heal them. 

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I grabbed an iron bar from the 
ground where one of the 

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protectors had been slain, gave 
it to the protector. 

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As I had hoped, the cracks in 
its iron hide filled in with 

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metal. 
The rest of that sun was a blur.

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I raced back and forth across 
the village, killing pillagers 

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and taking cover to eat as much 
bread as I could to heal my 

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wounds before launching myself 
back into battle. 

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And the third protector fell. 
I used the air and it dropped to

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heal the one remaining. 
The sun was halfway past noon 

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when the last of the pillagers 
fell to my blade. 

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The last Protector stepped up to
me and handed me a rose before 

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turning to resume its patrol of 
the village as if nothing had 

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happened. 
As I had killed each pillager, 

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those same green lights I had 
seen the Traveler absorbed from 

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the Witch had flowed into me. 
I felt stronger, somehow more 

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determined. 
I knew that the next time the 

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village was attacked, I'd be 
able to defend it. 

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The rest of the villagers 
emerged timidly from the shops 

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and houses they had lost. 
Many Fletcher and Leather Smith 

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were missing, as were a few of 
the junior farmers. 

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The villagers looked around, and
then a great cheer arose from 

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them and fireworks launched into
the air. 

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I hadn't known we had fireworks.
Soon the villagers were all 

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throwing gifts at me, even 
Priest. 

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Did you see that? 
I exclaimed. 

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I saved the village. 
Next time we're attacked, we can

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all defend ourselves. 
Priest said. 

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I said we can all defend 
ourselves. 

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I repeated. 
We can protect ourselves, we 

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don't need the traveller. 
Priest said something, but I 

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couldn't understand it. 
It sounded like gibberish. 

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Then the villagers all turned 
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The sun was almost set, but I 
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I just stood there, staring 
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I couldn't understand them. 
I was no longer one of them. 

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I I didn't belong here. 
I didn't belong anywhere. 

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Then I looked up at the massive 
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Perhaps there's still one place 
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I spent almost a dozen moons at 
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I'd explored the Traveller's 
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beneath it. 
That was where he had gone, the 

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stone to build it, and more. 
There was iron, copper and gold 

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in the belly of the world. 
I stood atop the stone tower, 

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looking down over the village. 
I had dugout more stone than the

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Traveller ever had to put a 
Stonewall around my friends, who

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no longer remembered me. 
Now the village was truly safe, 

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even from pillagers. 
Now it was time for me to go. 

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I had a full load of supplies, 
including a stack of blank maps.

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I pulled the one map from my 
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so long. 
It was time to go and find out. 

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What was that? 
That tantalizing X on the map. 

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Perhaps there would be answers. 
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the map as my compass. 
Now I was the traveller. 

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I stopped on a nearby hilltop to
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the eastern wall. 
A lone protector stood looking 

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toward me. 
Did it? 

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Did it Remember Me? 
Was it the one that I'd saved 

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during the Pillager attack? 
I fought down the desire to turn

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back. 
There's nothing left for me 

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there. 
I turned to the rising sun and 

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continued on my way. 
Behind me, the Protector turned 

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and hopped down from the wall to
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The End. 
Thank you guys so much for 

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listening to this episode and 
this is new, but if you guys 

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have any constructive criticism 
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telling me what I've done well 
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improve on. 
I'm planning on setting up a new

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form besides the submit a story 
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shortstories.com website for 
such feedback. 

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But for now, if you want to do 
that, just submit it through the

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normal submit a story page. 
Don't submit a story, but you 

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know, submit things are just 
mentioned or you could also 

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submit things you want to see on
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But anyways, just wanted to let 
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option. 
Anyways, along with the website,

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make sure to check out all the 
other links inside the 

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description. 
Another thanks to Thomas and 

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I'll see you guys inside the 
next episode.