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<span class="mu-b">“Mhmm- Wow! Yours tastes like tomatoes, <span class="mu-i">Sylvester</span>!”</span> He says to you.
<span class="mu-r">”Your family's Sweetwater, that has to be a pinapple. Or maybe a banana. They taste the same.”</span>
<span class="mu-b">”Mhmm. Yeah, true! My mother has seeds from the Fruit-Barons, did you know that?”</span>
<span class="mu-r">”Wha- You're lying!”</span>
<span class="mu-b">”Hehe, you're right. It was a lie.”</span>
You both giggle for a moment, sharing the moment. Before an accident. As you move to get up from your position, Everett slips and falls back- accidentally flinging the fragile glass vial of his family's Sweetwater to the ground, causing it to shatter. The precious stuff flows into the soil and is lost in a moment.
”Oh- Oh no!”
<span class="mu-r">”What happened?”</span>
“I-I dropped it! No!”
He clutches his head in his hands. You can already feel his desperation. The truth is that for the vast majority of people in this world, things are very tough. Losing a vial of Sweetwater, especially for a poor farmer like Everett, would be more then enough to bankrupt an entire family. Both of you were fools for sharing it and coming here with it, it was just childish fun, but you weren't supposed to lose it.
“What- What am I going to do?!”
<span class="mu-r">”Uhmm...”</span>
It's not something you fully comprehend yet, but it's something you're aware of in the back of your mind, the difference in <span class="mu-i">class</span>. Some men are rich, and some are not. Even if you don't understand it, you know that your family is richer then Everett- more then most people on the Island. Your father is a skilled <span class="mu-i">Coralman</span>, and is well paid for the things he can do for it. You already know that Everett would be punished much more heavily by his father for him losing the Sweetwater then your father would punish you in the same situation. You can feel his desperation. You clutch the vial of glass as it sweats in the hot outside air. Perhaps...
>Give Everett your family's Sweetwater and take the punishment on yourself
>Split up your Sweetwater in half and explain the situation to your parents
>Avoid getting in trouble yourself
