"Oh, that puzzle looks nice. I did not know that carpenters made painted and carved wooden puzzles like that. It looks like it is a field of white daisies." Alice approached Walker then looked up in surprise.
She had not noticed that across the room two more puzzles were being done with a fourth held fast on the ceiling.
"I am training my mana manipulation to hold the pieces and do the puzzles while reading this mystery novel. It's about the third demi-human king. He had traits from a spider monkey, whatever that is. An extinct monster or animal. But the point is they were cunning and tricked many of their people in to farming fruits and vegetables that could survive the northern territories which expanded their trading in to a larger area than ever before even though the general merchant populace didn't want to."
