Dernwynn

Briana pulled at the fastening of her dress, which was a lattice design that rested on her chest. The fabric loosened around her petite frame, and later joined her furs and shoes on the cold wooden panels of the floor. She lowered herself into the tub, and as she did so, the suds from the bath cream she dropped into the water molded around her naked body, as she became part of the water that rested beneath them.

As summer changed to autumn and then to winter, the girl met a turmoil that no one could have predicted her to face. It is something she will remember the rest of her days, the pain and regret will be her close companions as long as she breaths. It was a hard lesson for the girl, harder than losing her lover. The girl learnt that she can also lose her friends, no matter how close they were to her. And the man who taught that lesson was called Vandalan.

How unseasonably warm it was. Bright October sun split the moist air, its shallowness betraying the season only because Deredan knew the lateness of the morning. The hens were busy around their coop, their industrious little lives so full beneath the canopy of leaves that made Neyaa’s garden so clement.

Hardoleth...

“The tears I feel today
I'll wait to shed tomorrow.
Though I'll not sleep this night
Nor find surcease from sorrow.

So, here we are again. I did not expect that I should be writing again so soon. I cannot sit there and plaster on a smile and keep my composure after the last three days or so. Taala was the one who broke the news to me, So eaten up I was with regards to Rannie's dissappearance on my recent business trip the news hit me hard.

It has been a long time since my last entry, the contents of which can seem to make me cringe, I have come to terms with the beast within me, it is well satiated this month. I have been expanding my courier enterprises since last I wrote, my cart was assailed by brigands. Kríea's trauma will heal in time from her brief captivity by them. I am still not certain as how I managed to get her out of it and still preserve the precious Lynx furs that were my cargo.

Hello, my leathery friend. The one sat with me here at my deathbed. As expected, no family, friends doing theirs and me here, bedridden and infirm and only getting out to piss in a bowl next to my bed.. Quite a mess I will leave for others to clean, hah! Oh, I shall not lie, I do enjoy no one seeing me in this wretched state.. coughing phlegm and blood at every turn, but I should get on with this.. will.

Oh I have great news, lad. Something great beyond measure. The contract has been concluded.

Taala had not experienced anything as peculiar since the day the Orc climbed over the wall at Eaworth and Cook had panicked and thrown a pot of stew over it.