Valerie was off, exploring the world and before I knew it, she had made it to the tree. She managed to take the lift down to the death cap mushrooms but I quickly scooped her up and fed her carrots instead.
Our next lesson was about herbs.
At first, I thought the plant she was curious about was a weed so I punished her when she ate it. That was a mistake.
When I realized that the ‘weed’ didn’t have any ill effect, I looked up a table of plant effects and found that the plant was, in fact, very good for her! Oops.
We had to relearn a name for the herb and learn that it was actually ok to push the plant. Poor girl must have been confused. Soon enough, though, she was a child and was finally walking upright in the world.
Finally, at 24 minutes old, she was ready to have Tanner join her. Actually, by now, she’d learned more about the world than Tanner because he spent most of his life sick and being tended to. I wasn’t too worried, though. These things have a way of working themselves out.
I had to take some time with Tanner to teach him to eat herbs and food and to teach him the names of herbs and weeds. I managed to teach him ‘music’ though his attention is hard to capture. Finally, when he at 6 carrots in a row, I was sure my lessons set in. For now.
It was finally time to introduce them to each other.
By chance, Valerie was walking by the musicola and Tanner was just below, by the helicopter toy. I scooped him up with the lift and soon, I had two very happy, excited norns on my hands. Right away, they were kissing and laughing.
Exploring shortly followed and Valerie made her way to the beach, Tanner stayed in the swamp. They both kept eating carrots and I knew that soon, they would be ready for adulthood.
