Bremmy and Mirry

**Bremmy and Mirry** is a popular children's tale in Ralmulash that promotes the virtues of diligence, patience and courage. It features Bremmy the cave beetle and Mirry the Magma Crab as main characters. Written by the dwarf Bemmatir, who based the events on his day as rider on the beetle routes.

## The Tale

Long ago in a cave in Ralmulash lived a cave beetle named Bremmy. Bremmy was the youngest of his pack, only a tiny beetle compared to his bigger brothers and sisters. Despite this they lived peacefully in their cavern deep below the ground. That was until a horrible event surpassed causing the partial collapse of the cave. Little Bremmy was separated from his parents and siblings, alone he had to navigate the other tunnels of the cave he did not know. At first he was scared and tried to break through the rock that was between him and his parents. From the other side of the boulders he could hear his family encouraging him: ''We all believe in you little one, you might not be as strong yet Bremmy but we all now you can do it! We will look for a way around to find you, but so you have to do too. Follow our smell and we will follow yours and we shall not be separated for long. Go little one go.'' And so Bremmy dug deep, clearing a few rocks along the way until he went deeper and deeper in the cave. From far away he saw a deep dark red glow, curious Bremmy investigated. As he came closer he grew ever hotter and started to sweat. Before he reached the boiling magma a little magma crab jumped out of it. Warning him of the danger that magma was she introduced herself as Mirry. Bremmy told Mirry all about what happened and she told him of a different route, but they had to be patient as they had to wait for the magma to flow away. During this period Bremmy and Mirry became good friends with Bremmy helping Mirry first with small tasks and than bigger and bigger. Until the magma one day flowed away, just as Mirry said it would. They continued onwards with Mirry on Bremmy's back. The travelled for long in the dark caves until Bremmy suddenly smelled something familiar. ''It can not be?! I... I... I smell my family!'' Slow but steady, yet still a bit fast with excitement, Bremmy walked to where the smell was coming from. Turning a corner he suddenly bumped into a big cave beetle. Bremmy rubbed his head to then see a big pair of eyes staring at him. It was one of his siblings! Quickly he gave a big hug to them. Almost immediately the rest of the family was there hugging Bremmy. ''We knew it little one, we know you could do it our little Bremmy'', his parents said. Curious they looked at the magma crab on his back. ''O sorry! This is my friend Mirry, she helped me along the way.'' And so Bremmy told his family of all the things that had happened, how he met Mirry, how they navigated through the caves. Mirry would stay with Bremmy and his family. And so they lived happily ever after.

## History

The true events are based on the rides of Bemmatir on the so called beetle routes. On a routine supply run the caravan of cave beetles was suddenly separated as a section of the cave collapsed due to poor maintenance. Bemmatir on one side with his cave beetle with the rest of his group on the other side. Bemmatir would at first try to backtrack but that section had collapsed too. The routes luckily run through several cave sections, so he managed to find another series of caverns that would eventually bring him around to the rest of the beetle routes. Expect Bemmatir had arrived add a section of the beetle routes he did not know. He picked a direction and hoped to find civilization sooner rather than later. On his way he did encounter another beetle route rider and hailed them to ask for directions. The rider introduced herself as Mirdrid and mentioned that Bemmatir was in luck for she was heading the same direction. They stuck together for the length of journey and it would turn out they had quite a lot in common. Not soon after Bemmatir and Mirdrid would marry each other.