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Avug's saga, chapter 2 · Stories from Väruld

• 0:02
  Presenter: You are listening to stories from Väruld.
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  Presenter: In this episode, Avug Saga, Chapter 2.
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  Narrator: One of Avug's first memories was of the table with the machinery.
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  Narrator: Then she was still too short to see what was on the tabletop.
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  Narrator: As she got older, the tabletop too was fascinating and the handiwork impressive.
• 0:31
  Narrator: But it was the mechanics underneath that kept her attention.
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  Narrator: So many cogwheels.
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  Narrator: One of the cogwheels made a lap with the speed of ten slow breaths.
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  Narrator: That was the fastest of them.
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  Narrator: The others were slower, and most of them did not seem to move at all, though they were all connected to each other.
• 0:53
  Narrator: Avug never dared to touch anything, least of all the pendulum swinging back and forth.
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  Narrator: She just watched and tried to figure out how it worked.
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  Narrator: She was not allowed to be there under the table.
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  Narrator: She was a groon.
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  Narrator: The secrets the table held was not for her and her kind.
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  Narrator: A groon was expected to clean the floors and take care of the garbage while the others, the educated brunies, were asleep.
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  Narrator: Avug did the job assigned to her every night.
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  Narrator: She just could not stay away from watching those cogwheels when she got a chance.
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  Narrator: It does not take long, she told herself.
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  Narrator: Most nights she had to rush to get the floor reasonably clean before dawn and got caught doing a sloppy job.
• 1:47
  Narrator: Since she did things she was not supposed to, she never told anyone about the table.
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  Narrator: Her mother rarely found out about her often sour buttocks, so many questions she feared to get were never asked.
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  Narrator: It was not only the table that she kept secret.
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  Narrator: Her grandfather was also kept out of every story.
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  Narrator: But it was not until that very day when she lay on her back trying to sleep that she understood that he was her grandfather.
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  Narrator: When she had just been told that her mother's father had been a brunie.
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  Presenter: Thank you for listening to Stories from Väruld. In the next episode, the Final Test.