Plots 05 14

A mild spring yields the beginning of a quiet summer. The bonds of inactivity that often plague small towns during winter has been shaken away: the song of hammer rings against nails and boards as damages from the cold are repaired; as fields are cleanly shaved of their useless growth, courteous farmers scatter shorn grass and wheat-husks across the muddy streets.

• After a long and bitter winter, at last relief arrives in the form of food convoys from the South. The caravaneers have established an impromptu Spring Fair to the south of Myrkentown. The supplies seem to be the work of Egris Verreaux and the Fair a gift to the suffering people of Myrken.

• With the food shipments travels a full regiment of Trae Kelsan troops - presumably marching north to put down the Thessil rebellion, though they have made camp not far from the Spring Fair.