Opening post by Cathryn Furr · #1
Before the first arrow was loosed, someone had left the latch unfastened. Yesterday I took my banner out of ENVY and rode alone again, expecting the road to give me some sign worth carrying home. It gave me only distance, and the silence of a place that refused to explain itself.
Bianca wanted the speech, Niko received the map, and Allie Blu stole his lobster treats while I counted them, Niko, Bianca, Allie Blu. I counted them again before the gate closed, then blamed the nearest absent lord; the cost was a day spent beyond my walls with nothing settled.