The Silver Ingot Gnome ran wildly on his horse, instinctively avoiding the neatly arranged seedlings ahead, though he was also puzzled why there were seedlings in such a remote wilderness. He knew that taking a detour would slow him down, but the long-standing tribal teachings still compelled him to avoid these seedlings, preferring to risk it rather than daring to tread on them.
"Do not tread on the seedlings, do not burn the fields, do not waste food, or you will die" —a secret doctrine of the Silver Chamber of Commerce.
Silver Ingot scoffed at this statement. He often saw farmers inadvertently stepping on seedlings, and during battles, the burning of fields and houses was all too common, yet he never saw anyone suddenly die because of it.
If one were to say they died of old age decades later, what did that have to do with stepping on seedlings or burning fields?
