Fifty Word Fantasy: Dwarven Secrets

Hayhill stretched on her bedroll. “But if you don’t have beards,” the halfling asked, “why is it said that you do?”

Osca undid her dwarven braid, then draped long hair beardlike under her nose. “An old trick to make dwarf armies look bigger… paired with gullible scouts overhearing our voices.”

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