Northstar Vale sand willow

tamar gently laughed.

"in the flatlands there is a palace called akashingo." she marvelled to discover that thinking of the pharaoh no longer haunted her mind. "it is led by ramesses, who sent germanicus to claim mereo as an outpost. but now mereo is more than that. and germanicus sent us to seek this place, though i do not believe he thinks of the vale as his own."

a pause. they walked. "there were bad wolves in these mountains who attacked many and killed others. there was a war. or what would have been a war. they were chased out and scattered. all that happened after is to keep this from happening again."