Coming Soon

Norm stood behind the fence outside his forge, looking towards the horizon between the long houses with red roofs and curved walls where against the sun a small group of riders closed in on their village of Acrenod. The villagers had gathered. It seemed that finally, the Lords of the village were returning. And sure enough first in the column the Elder and the Youngest could be seen. Behind them the Almajiri, the apprentices and warriors of the lord pair of young and old - deed and wisdom, rising and setting sun.

As they entered the hamlet the six horses came to a stop before the village temple around the well. When they set down from their horses everyone could see their exhaustion. Many villagers, including Norm, therefore made their way to the well and helped them take down what the Almajiri had brought with them. They had full saddle bags on the back of their horses but something in their eyes, their faces, and the way they set down from their horses was different.