| dialog | - Gnome invasion? Are you kidding me? They're three feet tall. The walls are twenty feet. What are they going to do, pole vault in?
- When the gnomes fire became Animated, they just kind of bumbled around aimlessly and attacked us when we got near. When they started to multiply, we set up some patrols to check up on then.
- I've been watching the gnomed for a while now, and I think I can shed some light on what this really means.
- Not today. You can tell Leon to stop worrying his big old goofy head about it.
- So, do you have time to take these battle plans up to Clara at south gate?
- Are you just coming back here to taunt me, or what?
- Are you kidding?
- Battle plans? Let me have a look.
- Great! She'll give us a good second opinion.
- Some other time, Leon.
- Sure, I'll do it.
- What are they then?
- Then they set up patrols to check up on us. In response, we sent a few guards over to knock them around, so they sent some gnomes over to knock us around.
- They must have seen us send a courier down to Leon, so they started sending couriers of their own. They're just mindlessly aping us. It's as simple as that.
- Well? What did Clara have to say about the battle plans?
- Do you think they learned to be violent from us, too?
- Exactly what leads you to believe these are anything but random doodles?
- That would make a fun little philosophical point, but no. We thought they were hilarious at first, and all we wanted to do was hug them. Then came the ankle-biting.
- She may be right about the plans being meaningless, but she could also be wrong. The day we stop worrying is the day Barton is overrun and I can't shake the hunch that those little monsters are plotting something. They're just too well organized.
- Seeing a pattern? I think the silly little guys are just trying to be people. I even saw one pretending to go to the bathroom on a tree! Goodness know where he learned that.
- What is this? Leon, it is? No, one of his little friends! Can I help you?
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