Red Fang Chapter 30

Dallon set the bag of food down just outside the stable door next to the rapidly growing pile. It wasn’t much to show for the lives of nine grown men. Some trinkets gathered on their adventures, a few items of clothing, patched and repaired, nothing that showed more than a fleeting connection to the past nor promised of a future.

“How far will that get us?” Samuel asked as Dallon went back inside the barn. Davey descended the ladder with some blankets draped over his shoulder and set those on the pile. “Put those back, Davey. We don’t steal from our brothers.” “No,” Davey said, and Samuel raised a bushy eyebrow, surprised at the youth’s challenge. “They’re not my brothers, not anymore.” “It should last us a week. Enough to get us to Dragsmund,” Dallon said coming back out with a small chest in his arms. “I assume we’re taking the boat we stole from Bend?” “That was my plan,” Samuel took one of the blankets from Davey and rolled it into a tight bundle. “Someone should go and check it’s still there.” “Take that boat over there,” Errol said as stepped out from around the corner and gestured at a smaller boat moored up in the inlet. It wasn’t as large as the one they’d stolen but it was enough for Samuel and the men left at his side. “Consider it part of what’s owed.”

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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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The Red Fang

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