Hi, this is Rianan Angel. I play Nia and several other characters on the once-in-future nerd, and also help write the show.

If you've found your way to this episode from our welcome page, or from anywhere else, really, that's awesome.

This is the best place to start the show. You're going to hear our first six episodes, comprising our first chapter,

all in one without any interruption, which, surprise, surprise, we'll introduce you to all of our

biggest characters and bring you right up to the spot where our plot really pops off.

If you enjoy it, head on over to once and future nerd.com slash episode

hyphen guide to see where to go next. But for now, just enjoy the show. Imagine if you can what life is like for a rabbit.

Imagine what it means to be vulnerable all your life, which is my very poetic way of saying

that life's hard for a rabbit.

Life's also hard for a small business owner who accidentally witnesses the death of God,

but I'd rather start with the rabbit.

This particular story begins with a rabbit who is called,

Hmm, let me come back to what he was called.

The speech of the sprites, I'm a wood sprite, you see, is a very old tongue.

It was never known by the wood folk or the river folk.

Even the fearsome and venerable mountain folk have long since forgotten it.

But it is still the tongue in which all life forms that lack the organs of speech can commune,

and we, the wood sprites, hear all.

The name of this particular rabbit in the speech of the sprites is best translated as

Mr. Fluffy Toes.

Mr. Fluffy Toes had been having a good day.

He had eaten a few solid meals and avoided detection by an owl through

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