Chapter 32Ledvrin was a small village lying about half a day’s march to the west of Lord Eldric’s estate. There was nothing about it to make it materially different from many other Fyordyn villages in that region. A small stone bridge carried the road, hump-backed, over a narrow river to mark its western end, and a modest trotting would soon bring a rider to the woods that lay along its eastern edge. Traditional steep-pitched roofs topped its cottages, colourful carvings abounded on doors and gates and any other visible woodwork, and gardens and elaborate window-boxes echoed these through the seasons with their own rich displays of flowers and shrubs.
The village was part of the estate of Lord Garieth, an able but young and inexperienced man who had recently, and quite unexpectedly, inher
