The small village of Hapton
The soft snow falls on the quiet farming village. A bird stops for a quick second on a leafless branch of a tall tree. A human young man trying not to disturb the bird gets a quick look at the colorful bird that stands out on the dark tree and snowy plains of the state of Bin. The white hair of the young man blends well with the snow that has built up on the ground. His soft blue eyes study the now-identified swallow with a curious look as he brings out a little notebook and starts drawing the bird. As he draws the bird he doesn't notice that a person is softly walking behind him. The one walking behind him jumps a little to shove Seigmund into the snow. A hearty laugh fills the forest as the purple devil-looking man wipes some of his eyes. He says to Seig who is shaking his head free of snow "You need to stop letting me sneak up on you Seig. If I was an enemy you would be dead." Seig getting up sighs and says while picking up his journal "Yeah but I don't think all my future 'enimes' are going to be as quiet as you are when walking through seven-inch snow. So besides trying to give me a heart attack why did you come and find me?" Jin shakes his head as he starts to walk to their cabin and motions for the wizard to follow him.
"I came to tell you that it seems the merchants are going to be stopping here soon and I know you always try searching for more spells or any book about dragons. You do know the reason people don't have detailed notes about them is if they get too close they end up dying right." Seig sighs and nods as he follows the teifling to the small market. Seig looks to the barren tree line as he silently follows Jin. Seig and Jin live where not much happens in peoples day to day-to-day lives. Jin makes money by being a farmhand for the Leodin family which is the local nobility that harvests frost apples. A blue apple that grows in the cold and is the main source that they trade for money to traveling merchants. Seig a young man who wants to be a mage doesn't have many sources to learn the arcane arts so when the monthly visit of merchants visit he goes to find anything about magic. Jin is an ex-thief who ended up in Hapton and took the free out to live a quiet life.
After some time the duo makes it to the center of the village to see about twenty people surrounding a few merchant carts looking through the new items. Jin says "Fuck. I thought we would get here early and not deal with the crowd. Now I need to go through all those people just to see if they have any chocolate." Seig chuckles as Jin grumbles as he heads to the crowd. Seig goes to sit on a nearby empty chair before he sees two people walking away from the crowd that he believes are not from here. One is a woman just as pale as the moon with white robes and a white hood that covers most of her face and only shows her mouth and chin. Her campaign is a man with brown hair that has red ends. He wears an odd strange grab that Seig has never seen before. Also, he carries a long curved sword that is sheathed. They are heading to the forest, Now Seig couldn't help but follow them since he had an odd feeling that they were up to something not normal.
"Look I know you think I don't believe you but come on Glenda there is nothing out here. I'd say we just buy a horse and head back to Tobin and check other leads." The now-named Glenda just shakes her head as she says "Now Cogan you lost the coin flip so be quiet. I know you don't have faith that Sylvannas shows me where we must go but all I ask is to not always hear your rude comments." Cogan nods and Seig follows from afar as he uses his invisibility spell he learned a few weeks ago has now paid off. The two keep walking till they find a stump in the middle of the woods. Cogan looks it up and down and asks "So they decided to hide the map in a stump. Am I the odd one to think that it is a bad place to hide it? Please tell me that it is odd." Glenda nods and says "Yes it's odd but it's not a bad place to hide it. So do your thing." Cogan nods and starts to stretch. Once he is done he holds his hand out and magic fills the air as Seig without realizing drops his invisibility spell. A bright light fills the area to the point Seig covers his eyes.
Jin finally done getting his exotic cheese gets himself out of the crowd and looks around for Seig. As he looks he sees a weather van start to spin out of control as the wind picks up. Then the air grows quiet and a roar fills the air. Jin's eyes go wide and he drops his food. He yells "Seig!" The village of Hapton is about to be ground zero for a dragon fight.
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