Location: Eastern Roads, Lower Realm
Date/Time: Day 790-792 (Since Nexus Contract) - 26-28 Voidmarch, 9938 AZI
Realm: Lower Realm
The town of Millbrook appeared through the morning mist like something from a half-remembered dream.
Jayde slowed her pace as they crested the final hill, taking in the settlement sprawled across the valley below. Perhaps two hundred structures—wooden mostly, with a few stone buildings clustered around what she assumed was the main square. Smoke rose from chimneys in lazy spirals. Carts moved along the central road. People went about their morning business, small and distant as ants.
First populated area since the escape from Freehold. Eight months ago. Different circumstances now. Different capabilities.
(But still scary. Still so many people who might recognize us, might report us, might—)
Analysis first. Fear later. If warranted.
She studied the town with the practiced eye of someone who'd spent a lifetime assessing potential battlegrounds.
