In the tavern of Furious Wind City, the noise was overwhelming as two Knights sat at the bar, drinking cheap black beer and chatting loudly.
"Have you heard?"
"Heard what?"
"The newly appointed Count Thunderflame, the night before last, he slew a Frost Giant! It's in the gazette, the Frost Giant that attacked the Torrential Flood Dragon!"
"Really? A Frost Giant that even the Torrential Flood Dragon couldn't defeat, killed by Lord Russell?"
"Absolutely true. My cousin's wife's brother, he's on duty at the Elders' Hall, heard it from Lord Volcanic Minister Welchi himself!"
"Impressive!"
"Busy with the Earl's advancement ceremony during the day, and hunting Frost Giants at night, tsk tsk, I feel like the grand Duchy of Shadowflame is about to change!"
...
In a private room of a tea house outside Red Castle, a Duchy's Lord invited a visiting lord, who had just attended the Earl's promotion ceremony and had not returned home, for tea.
They talked about the recent big events.
