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"Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with it's touch and you have a right to act surprised. Other times death stomps in the front door, unwanted and unannounced, and makes it's noisy way to your seat on the sofa." - Hugh Elliott.
The Long Life Force Stone, the Smurfs most previous magical artifact. The magic stone is well hidden somewhere inside the smurf village, so why is this artifact so special to the smurfs? The stone gives the smurfs an extended lifespan, about a thousand years. It makes biological sense due to the fact that the smurfs don't physically reproduce and don't repopulate that much blue moons don't come that often these days.
This is a good thing you're thinking? Not exactly, a very small number of smurfs ever reach middle age. And very rarely, ever reach the elderly stage of life. So Papa Smurf and Grandpa Smurf deserves a little respect for living that long, since not that much smurfs might reach that age.
The Smurfs' lifespan may be long but the smurfs' life expectancy is way shorter, most smurfs probably die before they reach adulthood. The cause of deaths aren't so surprising, from natural predators such as feral cats and large birds such as eagles to human beings who want to either eat the smurfs, turn them into gold, or destroy them for some apparent reason.
There are a thousand ways to die, and yet there's a hundred smurfs. The chance of smurfs dying depends on their actions and self reliance, often on each other. But there are times when relying on each other isn't simply enough, and they need help. The smurfs were close to their ultimate demise on several occasions, maybe a million occasions.
Life does not work that way, common sense states that a there must be some casualties among the smurfs. So what will these deaths look like? It's anyone's guess. Everyday they faced germs, toxins, injury, illness, and catastrophe. The fact that they survived it all is a miracle...
Because everyday they live, they faced a thousand ways to die.
TO BE CONTINUED...