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One of my first times playing was not an exciting or eventful story, it's about as common and plain as you could imagine, but I think a selfless teacher is worth writing about.  The hero is small, nothing goes right, but everything is well.

tldr: Old lady spends life teaching idiot daughter to cook and then starves.

Virtue Sillyman named her final child Eriel and asked if she was new, and sighed when the reply was Y.  She equipped her daughter well, even putting a sliced pie inside a pack just in case, and then spent the following 20+ years teaching Eriel how to bake.  Eriel was eager, but not a very focused student, and she had 10 kids during this period (only a son and daughter survived), so Virtue had her hands full the entire time.  The last 10 years or so she taught Eriel some farming; she never finished.  Virtue was so focused on teaching that she didn't notice she was starving. The last thing she said during a lesson on compost was "now we wait" and then she was gone. 

Eriel put on the apron, scooped Virtue's bones into a basket and her daughter, Isabel, joined burying her in the graveyard at the North end of town.  Eriel spent the rest of her life harvesting wheat and getting the hang of making raw pies with the skills Virtue started teaching her over 50 years ago; she never finished.  She forgot to tend the fire and it went out, and with that there was no time left to finish her first pies.  She asked her son to get tinder and restart the fire for his sister's new baby, and began tidying up.  Finally Eriel put one of Virtue's sliced pies in her pack before she put it and her apron on her granddaughter, wished her good luck, and walked North.