The docks of the town lay in a sheltered cove at the bottom of the cliffs, at the end of several long and winding staircase. They too were routinely abandoned whenever there was an attack. It was only the fortress that remained, small and solid stone and ever-immovable. It could only ever be attacked from the front, since there was only empty air on the other three sides.
Here, along with the nobility, the castles and the increased quality of goods, they also found not townsguards, but proper soldiers, stationed here under orders of the king to protect their coast. There weren't many of them – only three hundred in winter, and five hundred in summer – but Craghill was still an official garrison in that sense.
Vol checked their levels as he passed.
Level 8.
Level 9.
