Bubbling Water"s generosity was as famous as her sharp tongue was infamous. Where did she learn her philanthropy? Certainly not from her fellow nobility, most of them indifferent to their inferiors. Bubbling Water learned it from Guarding Bear, who taught her that no circumstance need stop her from helping her “constituents.” This word, foreign to our tongue, comes from the dead language of the north. A constituent is “one who empowers another to transact business for him or her.” Guarding Bear taught Bubbling Water to hold the interests of her constituents above her own, and her legendary beneficence is an example to us all, women and men both.—Noble and Peasant, by the Matriarch Rippling Water.
Noble and PeasantSilent Whisper rubbed his eyes, not believing what he saw.
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