When the ogre fell from his horse and broke his leg he expected to die, as was the way of the world.
Instead, a human boy found him, he dragged him back to his own village. The humans came out to finish him off, but the boy did some magic, and they carried him to a hut at the edge of town.
Their healer set his broken leg, and the boy brought the ogre food. He didn’t understand. He’d before never seen mercy or kindness.
After he recovered, the ogre returned to his own people, bringing strange ideas with him.

“Kindlifresserbrunnen Ogre Fountain in Bern Switzerland by Robbie Conceptuel” by Conceptuel is marked with CC0 1.0.

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