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Title: Inheritance, VII
Challenge: the Netherlands
Word Count: 100
"An answer?" Severus set his plate aside. Griet held a thick tome that appeared to be in Dutch. "If it prevents me from having to quit my job and move to New Zealand - "
She smiled, the calm, serene smile of a Vermeer milkmaid. "You will not have to move, my friend. Far from it. You will own the sheep and the elves that tend them and process the wool, but nowhere does the will say that they must be in New Zealand."
Severus' jaw dropped. Was it really that simple?
"I could move the sheep instead of myself?"
Challenge: the Netherlands
Word Count: 100
"An answer?" Severus set his plate aside. Griet held a thick tome that appeared to be in Dutch. "If it prevents me from having to quit my job and move to New Zealand - "
She smiled, the calm, serene smile of a Vermeer milkmaid. "You will not have to move, my friend. Far from it. You will own the sheep and the elves that tend them and process the wool, but nowhere does the will say that they must be in New Zealand."
Severus' jaw dropped. Was it really that simple?
"I could move the sheep instead of myself?"