[HQ Ignorance] Scene 105: The Gophers of Pent

[Michael Cole]

Lev Lafayette wrote:
> Scene 105: The Gophers of Pent
> >

> They were the Gord'Un, a people who swore against the coming of the
> Horse and the Horse people. Alone among the people of Pent, the
> Gord'Un declared the Horse to be a monster, eating all the grass on
> the steppelands that had previously been available for Grandfather
> Gopher and his children. When Grandfather Gopher tried to tell Horse
> not to eat all the grass, Horse said "Nay. If I don't eat the grass
> and you do, then my children will be hungry." Horse stamped on Gopher
> and drove him underground. Since then the Gopher people, the Gord'Un,
> have built traps for Horse, the primitives explained, looking
> hungrily at the steeds of Aalmon and The Fourth.

Presents a problem, this does.  Can gophers be harnessed to pull a sleigh? 
Can gophers be ridden into battle?  Methinks the answer to this question may 
influence our answers.  Would you agree, Aalmon?



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Regards,

Michael Cole