I woke early, with the impending feeling of … something … I couldn't place. I waited anxiously as Lu Sin and Gregory, my agent, loaded our things. I climbed clumsily into the carriage for what I prayed would be the last time. The double team of horses pulled and strained in the deep mud, and going was slow, but at long last, near dawn of the second night, the carriage came to a halt.
Gregory helped me down and I, ill-tempered and all, laid eyes upon what would be my home for the next century. Exactly as I had requested, the perfect image of what my mind only could see, the cottage was small, but adequate for three or four, and built up to the side of the mountain, hiding the caves I knew to be there. The windows glowed with light and with my dark eyes I could see the gardens surrounding i
