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Cassy was sporting more than just a shock of white hair when I checked on her. Her whole head was topped with silvery strands.

She lounged on the beach with her friend Grub and was taking better care of herself by eating nearby Parsnips. Meanwhile, all of the males were at the lowest level of the island having some kind of nornish mosh pit! How strange!

Peony made her way to the bee hives and started playing with them, only to find that she felt painful stings instead of delicious honey. Bored with that, she started playing with the bees themselves. Oh my.

Meanwhile, everyone else crowded at the island. It was always frustrating to watch the norns huddle around, especially when there was no food at the lower levels. More frustrating was when there was and no one ate it! The grendel, Grub, actually did a much better job caring for himself.

Head still pounding, I used the lift to carry all but Danny to the ground level of the island. I tried to separate them all, but even Mallory made her way here, via the sub.

This meant, thankfully, that Bobby was surrounded by friends when he passed away at 12 hours, 21 minutes old. Quite old for a norn!

He also seems to have passed away in comfort, listening to the sounds of the ocean under the shade of an umbrella, probably enjoying the ocean breeze, too.

With his passing, I saw fit to add another norn. With no babies left to import, I could finally hatch an egg.

This new little girl is named Tabby. She bears a strong resemblance to her mother Lydia. David is her father. I stayed with her for a while and enjoyed the relative quiet. One baby norn crawling after me is much more peaceful than a cacophony of adult norns slapping and kissing and talking. Speaking of the mob…

Mallory is pregnant! It was starting to seem like the ladies got pregnant as soon as they could! I managed to pull her away from the crowd long enough to get a picture and even still, some chatty norn had to butt in. Oh well.

She soon laid her egg and it was stored with the others, below the garden. This put our egg count back up to 5. Tabby joined the other norns at the island at the ripe old age of 17 minutes old. I already knew I’d lost her to the mob and settled in for another day of squeaking norns, slaps, kisses and complaints.

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“Keep your norn active and amused. A bored norn can develop serious mental problems.”

As ‘helpful’ as this Tip of the Day seemed to want to be, I doubted the validity of it. In any case, my norns always seemed to keep each other preoccupied, so I wasn’t too concerned.

Cassy’s pregnancy proceeded normally, as expected, but the distraction of the other norns kept her from eating. Typical, really. Her health hovered in the upper 50s%. It was finally in the 40s, when I was finally able to draw her attention to carrots, but Danny kept her distracted, even though he spent his time sleeping!

Finally, a little blue egg appeared and Cassy’s health slowed its descent. I lured her to the pier, away from the other norns, and gave her some parsnips. As I encouraged her to eat, Peony became pregnant! It was hard to tell who the father would be, but I was excited nonetheless.

Peony, Cassy, David(not shown), Perry(also not shown) Bobby and even Grub were on the island now. It seemed like the only norn missing now was Mallory, the new baby! Of course, at 40 minutes old, she was hardly a baby anymore.

Still, she acted like one. She didn’t like to stray from the house and play with toys still. I fed her some food and checked on the others.

Cassy still hadn’t eaten since she got pregnant, and her health was at a dangerous 20%. I had to trap her in the cave where the sub landed on the island, before I could get her to eat two parsnips. Finally, I was able to put away Peony’s new, green egg.

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