![]() If her husband dies in the quarry, I am so going to dance a jig on his grave. ![]() According to the little window detailing the wooden shack's particulars, she just gave birth under my vigil. ![]() The girl, who is freckled and dressed in rumpled overalls and pigtails in my mind's eye, was apparently pregnant. Hope, and the promise of a future in Banished's bleak, hungry world. Sandwiched between a geriatric couple and a spinster who has remained obstinately single since she moved into the house, they should have represented hope to me. This mismatched pair was the latest "family unit" to sprout in my town of Lestellow. But that doesn't change the fact that there's something deeply, fundamentally wrong about a 12-year old girl shacking up with a 29-year old man - even if he's a bearded beefcake of a stonecutter. I know medieval tweens were keener on marriage than some 30-year olds are today. "I guess that explains why they were Banished in the first place." Someone quips over Twitter. Some content, such as this article, has been migrated to VG247 for posterity after USgamer's closure - but it has not been edited or further vetted by the VG247 team. ![]() This article first appeared on USgamer, a partner publication of VG247. ![]()
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