Side of The Fire

Alexei, Neave and Risa were all riding doubled up with the men who had ridden across them while they were eating their rabbit stew.

It had taken some more convincing, but in the end, the leader of the four men had agreed not to ride on to Estie.

Alexei and Risa had managed to convince them that it was a lost cause and that they only wanted to find somewhere warm for them to rest their heads for the night before they moved on toward Alandria.

The men explained that the town they came from had taken them almost all day to ride from and that they had set up camp in a nearby cave the night before that they could use as a base to travel to and fro if they had been collecting survivors.

In a way, Alexei supposed that plan had paid off for them, though the only survivors that they had managed to collect from the disaster zone were the three of them.

The four travellers, Alexei and his companions all dismounted their horses before entering the cave.

Alexei had half been expecting a group