Mystery

Author’s Note: This piece was shaped with a little help from AI. It provided assistance on things like the structuring, some names, shortening some verbose language/ideas as I'd written, and gave me the odd turn of phrase here and there.

Following on from "Where the Road Darkens" 

Setting: Post-War: Othrikar

Author’s Note: This piece was shaped with a little help from AI. It provided assistance on things like the structuring, some names, shortening some verbose language/ideas as I'd written, and gave me the odd turn of phrase here and there.

Not a stone is kicked when the man returns to the southwestern streets of Bree-Town. Tall, covered by coat, and peering through the rain with two frigid light blue eyes, he proceeds without a single unearth in his step. At a brisk pace he approaches that passageway, the one beyond the hedges and the front yards of The Stone Quarter, the passageway that leads itself to another world.

The bottommost drawer of her small dresser contained a neatly-wrapped parcel. Daisy pulled it out for the first time in a long time and unwrapped it in her lap. Inside was a dress. While it seemed to have once been fine, now it was clearly travel-worn. She must have carefully examined each fiber looking for clues. Now she rubbed her thumb over the fabric of the left shoulder, where the stain of blood could still be seen faintly, even after having been washed. This was the dress she had been wearing when she was found bleeding and unconscious in the street.

Today was a simple day in  the Shire. A humble, unremarkable day in the month of Winterfilth  by Shire Reckoning. The  golden and red leaves of Autumn wiggle and dance in the gentle breeze. Most people would be too busy to notice a simple day like this, but I could see the signs. That special fragrance in the air, the sparkling dew drops hanging tenderly on a spider cobweb, the warm breeze blowing unusually from the east.

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OOC: This piece will be split up into parts, as I, as the author, believe that keeping such a set of information to take in and IC knowledge to learn about certain characters and events should be arrayed across different parts, in order to retain an easier form of reading, and hopefully interest.