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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ryryguy" data-source="post: 5238337" data-attributes="member: 64945">Hyza listens to the kobold and the kalashtar.  From her expression, their words have not done much to lessen her confusion.  "Ah... well, about zocalti, I don't actually have any right now.  I'd gladly let you have it if I did.  Some of the parents from Newhill would occasionally give me some as tuition for their children.  I gather it's quite valuable in the Valley of Bone, but there's not really a market for it in Fulcrum, so I tried to use it as a refreshment.  It's pretty nasty stuff really though, and most of the kids didn't really like it.  But I found if I mixed it with milk, that sort of... smoothed it out a bit.  Still not all that great tasting, but much more palatable.  Most of the kids would drink it then.  I think it might have some minor medicinal effects too, they seemed a bit more focused after the drink breaks."Castofle listens with interest.  "Milk, yeah... might cut the acidity a bit!  But wouldn't they have tried that in the Valley?  Hmm, never heard of any kind of dairy in the Bonite cuisine, so maybe not."Jaronel bounces up and down, excited.  "T'at's right!  Not really any cows back in the Valley, not the same kind anyway.  Meat cows, ya, but I never heard about anyone getting milk from them.  Milk from goats, ya.  But not cows!  So I t'ink maybe this could be a new t'ing for the headman!"The teacher looks at the pasture down at the end of the slope.  Three black-and-white cows stare back, chewing placidly.  "You're welcome to some milk from my cows.  I'm not sure but I think these may be the only dairy cows in Fulton at the moment, a halfling family had some as well but I heard they took ill and died a few months ago."  She seems distracted, continuing to gaze down at the pasture.  She snaps her fingers. "You know, I just realized...  Just a moment."She walks to the corner of the garden, bends over, and lifts a heavy object with a grunt.  She holds it up, and Jaronel recoils - it is a stone statuette of a figure clutching a zocalti pod, twin to the one that had been left behind at the plantation.  "I found this down in the pasture this morning.  I have no idea how it got there...  thought it would make a nice decoration for the garden. But that's a zocalti pod he's holding isn't it?  I didn't recognize it earlier.  How strange!  This thing turns up and now you people asking about zocalti...  She looks over at Jaronel, whose face has gone white.  "Uh - should I be worried?"</blockquote>

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