Snippet #2409422

When would he stop being homesick?

Silent looked at the village, it was nothing impressive but it looked more like a town than a village truth be told... maybe it was a town and it had not yet realized it, but then again maybe it did not fill the 1k inhabitants required to be a small town.

Or maybe Romandan requirements don't apply here

All had pointed to this remote outpost near the towering Willowspeak, Silent still had troubles realizing if it was supposed to be Willow´s peak or Willow Speak, these lands were fond of fancy and silly word games, riddles and jokes regarding the pronunciation and accents of certain vocables repulsed him, they salted the wound of his incapacity.

Yet here he was, in a town to which he was an outsider looking for a way to make it through for another day, here the provider of those flying candles would be found ensuring that certain wedding would be the talk of the city when they came upon these rarities.

That was the problem with these people, they thinked too small concepts of supply and demand, added value and cost cuts were completely unheard of, perhaps the threat of winter had smashed their ambition and getting alive out of such ordeal was something that the other 3 seasons had to be spent upon, he remembered his first winter on this alien land... he was shocked at just how low he had to sink to survive.

Today not even cannibalism bothered him

Those candles could be weaponized, if he had stumbled upon such resource when he commanded the Sirdaer he would have made sure that his scouts had those by the horseloads, maybe even in different colors to codify distinct situations.

But people here spoke of it as a local rarity, like a human shaped stone or a dancing bear... amusing yes, but only until the novelty wears off

He arrived to the village and gave a look around, nothing stood out or was particularly suspicious, no shady corners with criminal rings, no suspicious disappearances, no zealous fanatics eager to burn outsiders, all in all a settlement free of any potential troubles.

Now about that candle magician...