Challenge #04773-M024: The Unlikeliest Hero

The storm winds were so strong that wraithvine's hat blew off faster than ze could hold it down. Inside the sheltering cave a mixed species family soon hurried in, with a little kobold hatchling proudly prancing with the pointed thing in hir maw. -- Fighting Fit

In all other ways, it was just a hat. To Wraithvine, it was hir hat, a most special hat. Ze had made it when ze first decided to be a Wizard and ze had been repairing it ever since. By now, it was debatable that there was any thread of the original remaining. Nevertheless, it was Wraithvine's hat. Making a new one would hurt.

Hir life was technically more important. Even when ze was technically deathless, it never did hir any good to tempt an encounter with mortality. Besides, hir goddess would be pissed at hir.

Further in Wraithvine's disadvantage, ze had companions far more mortal than ze was. Getting them to shelter was more important than a hat. Their cavern shelter was shallow enough to keep the wind and sleet off them, and more importantly, space enough to open hir portable tower. Or it would have been if ze didn't keep the tower inside hir hat.

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