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They never expected it to turn out as it had.
Sure, they hoped their hard work would bear fruit. Of course they put all they had into it. They needed sustenance, which — without gold or title or power or support or skill — meant they had to find a way to raise it.
Through thick and thin and cold and rain and mud and sun.
Some of it with bare hands. Some literally blindly, given their bad eyes.
They did what they felt they had to do. They just never expected to manage quite so well.
Not when all they’d ever been told was how unworthy and incompetent and incapable they were. A burden on others. Unproductive mouths to feed.
They’d soonest have believed they’d amount to nothing than that they’d amount to so much. Or have such plenty.
Enough to get through the winter and the early spring. Enough for next year’s planting. Enough even to give.
They had the biggest yield anyone had seen in years.
They never expected it to turn out as it had.
To have so much to eat, to be able to be those who feed.
It had to be the fairies, dusting magic onto their field.
For the Word of the Day Challenge: Yield
Na'ama Yehuda 
Well, it probably was the fairies. Yet what had they done to invite the fairies’ aid? Mmm, now that is the question
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Indeed! 😉 Perhaps the fairies liked their hard-working, humble souls? Or … who knows …
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I have heard that fairies like to help hardworking folks, folks so busy and focused they don’t go prying into fairy-business
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Exactly! 😉 Look at all the folktales of the humble gal/lad helping someone in distress without seeking a reward (and getting extraordinarily rewarded) and then the greedy person setting out to replicate the reward … (but nope … ;)).
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But be based on truth (I say with tongue wedged into cheek) 🙂
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For all I know, it COULD be truth … 😉 I’ll suspend disbelief and let the fairies do their thing … 😉
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Best, hey 🙂
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I think the fairies came in because they worked so hard!!
Lovely story.
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Me think so, too! 🙂
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🙂
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