While Karl was busy in the shop, the Tiny World was going crazy with productivity.
The bunnies were ramping up their need to be helpful, now that they were settled into their new homes, and the Dragon Priestesses at the Orphanage had proven incredibly competent, leaving nothing that actually needed to be done.
So, the bunnies were only doing things for each other at first, but they were all too eager to please, and they ran out of things to do much too fast.
So, they had started just following people around, looking for things to do.
Until Tessa had realized the issue, that was.
"Alright. Everyone, gather around. I have made up a work rotation!" She declared.
That brought bunnies running from every direction. Finally, someone had concrete directions for them. They had been given spectacular new classes and skills, but they had been left unattended to figure them out, and that was not a bunny’s strong point.
"Those of you with trade skills, you will join teams working on your trade skill from eight until noon. Then you have two hours for lunch and to clean your personal dens. Following that, you will report back to the training grounds to work on your class skills.
For some of you, that means going back to your trade skill areas, and that is fine.
The chefs have multiple meals a day to prepare anyhow, and the gardener class bunnies can move to another field.
For those of you without trade skills, I have come up with a work roster based on what we’re short of. Most of you will be with the dragons, working in the fields of Alchemical resources. They require greater attention than the food crops, and the pros can tell you what to do.
I will post it on the bulletin board today, and update it as needed, so check it every morning."
There were audible sighs of relief as someone took charge of their lives again.
Tessa knew that the Bunnies were intelligent and motivated sorts, but they had generations of strict obedience bred into them. The ones who misbehaved had long since been culled by their masters.
So, what was left was a docile population who were used to simply doing what they were told.
It had gotten to the point that they actually began to stress out if you didn’t give them orders. So, she would send the combat capable bunnies through the training tower once a day, giving them purpose aligned with their class, then send them out to do random tasks so that they didn’t feel like they were slacking.
When the bunnies were stressed, the whole Tiny World felt unbalanced, as if permitting a bunny to suffer was against the rules of the world. Even if it was something as mundane as letting them get bored.
While Tessa knew that Chaos reigned in Karl’s team, with Thor being the only order aligned teammate, she was a naturally ordered person, who followed the god of war.
War had rules. War was controlled chaos. Not quite order aligned, but structured in a way that was certainly not chaotic.
Strangely, setting the bunnies on their morning tasks was actually helping Tessa understand something about the nature of the fundamental rules.


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