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> The one who was once a foundling taken in and called Wraithvine and Bibird "Untys", and the four who were the good-children of the immortal pair, find each other. In the finding, a close-knit bond forms among them. An interesting future awaits the party known as Compassion's Lessons.
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> [https://peakd.com/fiction/@internutter/challenge-04528-l144-eye-of-the-needle](https://peakd.com/fiction/@internutter/challenge-04528-l144-eye-of-the-needle) -- Anon Guest

Fate has its nexii. Some of them are more obvious, like the large cities where  heroes and Adventurers are more likely to meet. Some are reasonable, like little villages in the path of a destructive horde. This was one few would suspect. A school.

Kismet sat with the four kids with the same last name. The Weaver kids were two Hellkin, a Halloblood, and an otherwise ordinary-looking Human called Daisy. The other three, Vig, Fort, and Libby, instantly noticed that they all had the same protection charms.

And the same Unty.

"That means we're family," announced Kismet. "You're my cousins."

They at least became fast friends. Learning normal things together. Undergoing small, official tests to discover their gifts. One might think that the sewing Kismet learned at her Rennie's knee would be irrelevant to such tests. One would be wrong, of course. There is magic in making.

The right stitchwork, the right thread, the right figures... Even the right kind of needle can make a difference.

Kismet had a talented and steady pair of hands. With the right materials, she could make a powerfully magical patch. She could, with a little more tutoring than was truly proper for her age, sew a dimensionally-transcendant container.

They became a band of five. Four siblings and one cousin. Best friends from the start to the end.

They were going to _go_ places. Everyone could tell.

So they were among the first to test Unty Wraithvine's Training Dungeon.

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