I for the first time in my life left my hometown, Bear Woods, the coachman was
the chatty type he kept talking about random stuff most of the way, I heard about
have of what he said, I was lost in my memories, of the first few years of my life, my
parents, my sister, I thought about my future, I thought about my regrets about how
that lord won't have a slow painful death, about that merchant who will get blamed
for the death of the lord, about the pain, I felt in my heart when I killed that bully that
thug, about the nightmares I have of my mothers, corpse my sister's dead body on
that small bed of ours, of the face of my father, when we found him hanging himself, I
thought about that dog who made me a cripple about how such a small insignificant
the incident affected our life, I thought about the days when I thought about ending my
own life, I remembered our house and how it looked getting swallowed by the flames,
the face of the lord turning purple, thinking about my future , at some point in time
the coachman called me, he told me that we have reached the town of Stark lake
where I will try having a fresh start, when we got close to the city gate a guard came
close to us checking our identities to make we are not criminals, then he asked us for
the entrance fee, it was 5 copper coins, which pretty much all I had after paying the
coachman and buying food and proper clothes, since I couldn't steal a lot of money
from the lords, treasury or I would have been suspected because I wouldn't be able to
hide all the money, but I wasn't worried, I know that some way or another I would be
able to live my life with no fear or pain, I slept on the streets for three days till I found
a job at a bookstore as a clerk because I could read and write, four days later news of
lords death reached the town, I wasn't worried I knew they have no evidence against
me, or so I thought, on my tenth day here a knight knocked on the door the owner
welcomed him and asked him some questions I was far from them so I couldn't hear
well but from what I understood things were looking bad for me, they knew about my
mother, they also knew that my body wasn't found in our burned house, I was there
prime suspect I panicked, my first thought was running away, but when I calmed
down a bit, I knew that this was the worst thing I could do, after all, if they knew how I
looked they wouldn't be asking around like that about a young man with white hair
and a pale face, I had dyed my hair back then and used some makeup to make me look
pale, I also made a fake arm, it took me a lot of effort to both make it and make sure
that no one notices it.
Still waiting wasn't an option I had to do something, then I thought about it the
army was recruiting the kingdom of Kirir was always at war, well then I thought the
army it is, but first I need to get rid of all the evidence of me coming here.
I know where the coachman stays when he comes here in an inn called 'power', I
sneaked in at night and slit his throat, after putting the knife in the hand of the
hooker in his arms who was soo drunk that she didn't notice the blood on her face, I
sneaked away again, I went to a bar and I picked a fight with a drunken man which
earned me some bruises and a cut on my lips, now I have a solid alibi, using the
money I stole from the coachman I decided to go to a large city to join the army, I
found a coachman and he agreed on taking me to the city of Fort White Rock, yet I
will have to wait for three days, during which I bought some books, clothes, and food,
I may be a criminal but I like to be an educated one, laughed at my own joke and
judging by the way the coachman is looking at me he must have thought I'm crazy, I
smiled at him and then I got on the coach, and with the sound of the whip the horses
started galloping, towards a new future.