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A thousand years before the Great War, Midden was united, and each country was divided into small provinces, each ruled by a senator. As the tale goes, Arcamia was a young Hikki studying to be a Provincial Senator on Midden's Territorial Court and during a heated debate, Arcamia spoke out, defying the law of the court since she was but an apprentice. She had spoken out on the grounds that the senator debating was incompotent, and that she was smarter than he was. She was sentenced to be punished by her senator, a Vulpesant named Bo'Ruur. Bo'Ruur was a strict man, and it dishonored him to have one of his students behave in such a way. Bo'Ruur ordered her before him, and told her to prove her intelligence by asking her three riddles. If she failed at any of the three riddles, she would loose her tail. It was effectively a death sentence, which no one would oppose. (Halving was a common excecution technique in Midden's early years.) The first riddle was as follows:

Bo'Ruur: "I was riding on a ship to Veejan, when I passed six fishing boats. Each boat had five sialors, and each sailor had two maidens. How many people were sailing to Veejan?"
Arcamia thought just for a moment, and then replied: "One, sir. And that would be you."

She had anwered the first riddle correctly, but there were still two more.
The next riddle was posed as a question:

Bo'Ruur: "You feed it and it lives, you water it and it dies. What is it?"
Now this one was difficult, because Arcamia knew of a few plants that could only be watered once a year, any more and they would die. But that thought cleared her mind as she replied: "Fire!"

The third riddle was the only one standing in the way of the rest of her life, and little did she know, but it held greater meaning than expected.

Bo'Ruur: "The man who makes it does not want it, the man who buys it will not use it, but the one who uses it does not know it. What is it?"
Arcamia stopped, and thought. A single tear rolled down her cheek, as she concluded that there were two answers to this question, and either could be right, and either could be wrong. Looking up at Bo'Ruur, she replied: "A grave?"

She went on to be one of the most influential senators Midden had seen in an eon.

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A thousand years before the Great War, Midden was united, and each country was divided into small provinces, each ruled by a senator. As the tale goes, Arcamia was a young Hikki studying to be a Provincial Senator on Midden's Territorial Court and during a heated debate, Arcamia spoke out, defying the law of the court since she was but an apprentice. She had spoken out on the grounds that the senator debating was incompotent, and that she was smarter than he was. She was sentenced to be punished by her senator, a Vulpesant named Bo'Ruur. Bo'Ruur was a strict man, and it dishonored him to have one of his students behave in such a way. Bo'Ruur ordered her before him, and told her to prove her intelligence by asking her three riddles. If she failed at any of the three riddles, she would loose her tail. It was effectively a death sentence, which no one would oppose. (Halving was a common excecution technique in Midden's early years.) The first riddle was as follows:

Bo'Ruur: "I was riding on a ship to Veejan, when I passed six fishing boats. Each boat had five sialors, and each sailor had two maidens. How many people were sailing to Veejan?"
Arcamia thought just for a moment, and then replied: "One, sir. And that would be you."

She had anwered the first riddle correctly, but there were still two more.
The next riddle was posed as a question:

Bo'Ruur: "You feed it and it lives, you water it and it dies. What is it?"
Now this one was difficult, because Arcamia knew of a few plants that could only be watered once a year, any more and they would die. But that thought cleared her mind as she replied: "Fire!"

The third riddle was the only one standing in the way of the rest of her life, and little did she know, but it held greater meaning than expected.

Bo'Ruur: "The man who makes it does not want it, the man who buys it will not use it, but the one who uses it does not know it. What is it?"
Arcamia stopped, and thought. A single tear rolled down her cheek, as she concluded that there were two answers to this question, and either could be right, and either could be wrong. Looking up at Bo'Ruur, she replied: "A grave?"

She went on to be one of the most influential senators Midden had seen in an eon.