Potatoskr
A dark fable of the world tree
There live the stories of how the first humans were trees; and how one tree bound all the cosmos together; and how one squirrel was also a potato, and lived as a humble gardener amidst the roots of that tree.
History books say the potato reached the Old World in the sixteenth century. They are perfectly wrong. Beneath Yggdrasil, a gardener the world forgot tends a harvest whose cost no one sees, until a giantess, a pair of birds, and one very irksome squirrel begin to look.
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