Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Dan Jones and Dragons Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Content Warnings: Emotional/spiritual abuse. Implied child abuse. References to canonical child-murder
Summary: Faced with a choice, Morenthal leaves.
It was raining lightly by the time they made the town proper.
The main street emptied as they passed through, residents hurrying for the cover of their doors while vendors closed shops and stalls early in anticipation of the coming storm. Despite the thinning crowd, a lifetime of habit sent his eyes sweeping each rooftop and alley, automatically appraising each passerby as he followed quietly in the footsteps of the older man.
He knew the town by sight, if not by name. (He suspected he had been told it once, but in their business some things were safer forgotten). A cross-point, located at one of the forks in the main road passing southeast of Riverleaf. Not so far from the Shard Coast as to be unreachable, but far enough that travelling there from any of their fixed rendezvous points required several days of deliberate detour. Home to an even mix of Humans and Elves, a Gnome here and there, the occasional caravan passing through to the druid city. Simple folk living simple lives. Ordinary. Unremarkable.
(The perfect place to hide something no-one expected to look for.)
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