And after that, we rushed home. It felt like a rush, and we were in a rush, because now we really wanted to be home before the Feast of Naigha. Of course… There were still villages to visit, and there was larger village, almost a town, where we stayed a…

Back in Tal Ryth, we found that Captain Ferin and his (and our) troops had captured six bandits and had invested the village itself, so another twenty, twenty-five bandits (well, men, women and children, even babies) were kept in place for us. The captured bandits, interestingly enough, were a raiding…

In the end, Moyri came with me to the leper village. Either captain Ferin could catch the bandits on his own with the soldiers, our band and the villages, or he would just investigate and not do anything yet, but it made no sense for us to separate. Not when…

When we had clothed the ragged and fed the curious, and when the inn-keeper finally realized it was the baroness who was giving his guests treats, we felt it was time to be just the two of us together. And have a bath. And a shave… So we asked the…

Between Habali and Hokaji were a lot of smaller villages. And we took our time in every one; it will very likely be the only time Moyri and I will have this chance to meet the people in our barony! And it’s really beginning to feel like ours — perhaps…

We were so happy when we finally left the barren lands behind us! For the young ones, like Rani, it was almost a miracle, they had never seen lush, green, fruitful land. Sometimes I have to work hard not to blame their elders for deciding to stay in their villages,…