Nano Day 4:Notable Nanos:Coach was lucky. Although some...

Nano Day 4:

Notable Nanos:

Coach was lucky.  Although some trolls find power within their mansa and seek to build bigger and bigger homes, the Coach was never into that sort of power trip.  Like me, his home was temporary in nature, movable, and he was free.  Someone like Dave or Jag—they may command armies, but they're tied down to their lairs in a way that the Coach and I would never be.
It wasn't that Zelda lied.  She wasn't a liar, so much as she saw so many truths flash in front of her eyes that she often forgot what she had told to whom. 
…considering we hadn't yet made our introductions, I figured a helpful troll was the last person she wanted slowing her down. 

Scenes I'd forgotten I'd written:

"Happy to see me, Cousin?"  I asked.   He lunged for me, and I threw myself backward at the same time, catching his wrist and using his own momentum against him to sling him further off-balance, into the mud.

(Jiu-jitsu, anyone?)

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'shrooms courtesy oldbookillustrations:

Black morel (Morchella elata)

Albin Schmalfuss, from Führer für Pilzfreunde (The mushroom lover's guidebook) vol. 2, by Edmund Michael, Zwickau, 1901.

(Source: archive.org)