Threads of Destiny (The Veilguard Saga Book 1) by Travis Starnes

Author:Travis Starnes [Starnes, Travis]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Renegade Publishing
Published: 2024-07-13T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 13

Farvale

The city of Farvale was a completely different world than their small village of Eldham, and not just because of the cobblestone streets and large stone buildings. The place was crawling with people everywhere they looked, and all of them moving with the same urgency as people being chased by wolves.

And the noise. It was all-consuming.

Merchants hawking their wares, saws and hammers and all other sundry tools clanging away in workshops, people in small and even large gatherings in every direction, and children laughing and darting between their legs or the small gaps between groups.

There were so many people.

“I know this is a far cry from Wolfridge,” Osric said, craning his neck this way and that. “But I don’t remember the capital being so … busy.”

Rowan chuckled and said, “Because it isn’t. Wolfridge is a larger city and has more people, but these border towns move at a pace like nowhere else. So many trade goods go through here on their way down to Everton and the four corners, especially out of the Western Forest, where it doesn’t make sense to carry them all the way up to Wolfridge just to bring them back down the Great Road. So yeah, a lot of the bustle filters out by the time it gets that far. Also, the market is on the edge of town, not near the center, so that makes a big difference.”

“You’ve been to Southwatch?” Osric asked, now staring at Rowan with as much amazement as he had looked at the town.

“Only as far as Everton, and not on Ranger business. Our purview doesn’t go past our barony, but I picked up a fugitive from the crown and there’s an outpost for the Knights of the Gold there where I could hand him over.”

“And you met the knights?” Osric asked, even more fascinated.

He’d met a few Knights of Greenwood, who served as liegemen to the baron, when they’d come to Master Ironhand for repairs to armor or weapons. Those, however, were a far cry from Knights of the Gold, who were liegemen directly to the crown itself, which only accepted the most elite warriors.

“Some. Bunch of jumped-up bastards, if you ask me. Too good to talk to someone from out in the sticks.”

Osric wasn’t sure he’d call Greenwood the sticks. Sure, it was the barony furthest from the crown, well, with the exception of Easthaven, just north of Greenwood. But it sat on an intersection of the Great Road and the road to the kingdom of Brackendale, and also shared a northern border with the Caellond League, so it seemed to get more credit than Greenwood.

Osric went back to admiring the city as they continued to push through the crowds towards its center. That was made easier by Rowan and Cinder. While Greenwood Rangers might be less common in this area, he was sure one accompanied by a full-grown wolf, which they probably assumed belonged to the ranger, was something most had never seen before.

Cinder, for his part, seemed unperturbed by the attention.

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