"Tell me, now, do you believe that wicked happenings chase only treacherous people?
Let me tell you: it isn't so.
Misfortunate circumstances are as twain sisters: one that is a mentor and the other, a scourge. When terrible times compass a mortal, it is to train the strength of heart, as a teacher, that wishes for the finest to thrive in them, or the scourge that punishes the erstwhile wrongful deeds.
And either of these nurtures the right in a soul."
~
Cottage Street in the City of Shillingston,
Kingdom of Tristendyre,
The first Phrinight of the Second month,
XXI Year of Regency
Being cunning himself, Jaycob preferred oft the alliance of the innocent, for they neither suspected malice, nor were untrustworthy.
It hadn't been so much as an hour and the man had already retrieved the black cloak of Mister Joab, exited the Under-Ground Dungeons and made his way to the City of Shillingston.
