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Germination

by Rick

I don’t remember what night it was in Qada, but I woke up to a group of people dragging me through the streets. At night. Oh, if Sarenrae could watch! Desna, please hold her hand in the meanwhile.

We were brought to a square with a crowd murmuring. I say we, since when they took the hood from my hewn face I could see myself and four others standing atop a wooden stage.

“These five attempted to kill me, to take my life!” A voice I couldn’t see spoke to rouse the crowd, and they agreed with him. He mentioned how we had tried to kill him, in [his] city.

And so we were exiled to the reaches of Trenventari. They branded each of use with a circular brand on the shoulder, a permanent mark.

“The light as my witness, we are innocent!”

There was no recourse.

That speaker, the one accusing us, approached our group. The crowd chanted his name – Duncan – as he spat in our faces and marched us to a wagon.

Welcome to Erta, I suppose.

Chaff to the Wind

It took several days of restrained riding to reach Trenventar.

On the ride, Anko, the mostly-human mage with us, and Venrick, her mage friend, mentioned that Duncan was the head of one of Qada’s houses. They didn’t have anything good to say about him.
Our captors swapped horses several times while we rode onwards (northwards, I’d suppose). Eventually the carriage slowed, rolling up to some landmark we couldn’t see.

There was a loud thump outside.

Our guards began shouting, and the thudding continued. Anko ventured a peek outside:

“Wolves, in the dusklight.” The witch muttered something in a new tongue, and a creature wrought itself from darkness and murk: “Kamedake.”

Kamedake was a good friend indeed, fetching our keys from one of the now-fallen guards.

The wolves were upon us.

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