Red Fang Chapter 10

Elise could feel people watching her as she walked down the road and into the town. They peered at her from windows and doorways, stopping what they were doing to stare at her. At first, Elise smiled back, but she soon grew uncomfortable with the attention. The city of Arshen was where the doorway to Liandra’s Hall was located. It was the centre of the Religion and home to the temple dedicated to her worship. A priestess of the Goddess should have been an everyday sight and not worthy of the whispered conversations and open pointing.

Elise did her best to shake it off. This was her first opportunity to leave the castle since she had arrived and despite her fears for Avani, there was a part of her excited about seeing the town. Years on the island had left her isolated from the world, and she was desperate to see what had changed. The impoverished village that she had briefly passed through a decade ago had been replaced with a bustling town that filled the land between the castle and the river. The houses that lined the busy street were larger and better constructed than the hovels she remembered. A few even had glass in the windows and Elise traced her fingers over the smooth panes, marvelling at the wondrous material. The abbey had a window of stained glass, mottled, and locally made, but she was sure this was a sheet of the famed Jennerian glass, hauled up from the desert that lay to the south of the mountains.

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Nestled in the shadow of the Intraana mountain range is a vast land of marsh and forest. Rivers pour in from both the north and south flooding the region until it's more lake than land and yet it is home to more life than any outsider could imagine. Hidden among the reed beds are villages and farms, not all sited on dry land, some float. The villages of the marsh elves drift with the seasons, following the migrations of birds and fish, ignored by the humans as long as they don't get too close. A human king claims dominion and is ready to shed blood to prove it, not his but those of his men, marching them into the swamp to kill and needlessly die. But there are still places where people can hide from tyrants and create homes and communities of their own.

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