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Who?
Jess considered herself well-versed with Vallantia. It still took a fair amount of searching and finally an enquiry to the palace scholar, who’d happily produced maps to locate the village of Barinth. It was apparently a village well off the trade routes that hardly anyone ever went to and other than Scholar Clements no one knew anyone that claimed to have come from the town.
This time Jess chose a set of her old unadorned green and brown hunting leathers. Oh, they were well made and would place her as someone with some wealth, but they did not bear the crest of the Fourth. She slipped her brown cloak over her shoulders.
With the little bits and pieces she’d learned about this village, this time she decided to leave the Elite behind. There were times they were beneficial, but t
