The two girls watched him nervously when he stopped and asked: "I am looking for the eldest!"
Damn, not even good-looking, but also with some kind of raspy, goose bumps provoking voice
The two girls simply stared at him and obviously weren't able to give any answer. He scowled and repeated his question harshly: "Where!?"
She rose silently and received a grateful look from the two merchant girls while she approached. Well, now she was good enough as it seems. Normally the two of them did not want to have anything to do with her. Not that it mattered. Or she cared.
The stranger felt her approaching and turned to her, sizing her up wit
Part 1
Finally. After a lonesome and arduous journey of two months, Jordis had finally reached her destination, the capital city Caellowell.
At the city gates in the South, where she had come from, she wiped the dust off her robe and handed three coins of copper over to the guardsman, the toll to be allowed to enter Caellowell. For an ordinary peasant, this would have been a little fortune, that she knew, but to her it was almost nothing. As a runecaster she had never had any concerns in respect of money. Now, as an accredited runecaster, even less so.
The city guard nodded and signalised her to pass through, clearly not wanting anything mo