7
Varian
I ran without rest and without direction for hours. All that mattered was to get away from those monsters, far enough away they wouldn’t be able to catch up with me.
Weary with fatigue, I allowed myself to rest.
I didn’t drop my glamour, though, because I could hear and sense other creatures close by and the last thing I needed was another fight, another scuffle that would send me back to square one.
After some rest, I looked for someone to help me out. I was probably delusional, feverish and whatnot, but I had seen Carlyn inside the ogres’ lair. If there was a woman like her—not a monster who was willing to bite my head off at first sight—in that fortress, there was bound to be someone else on the outside too.
It took me a while and many narrow encounters with different cre
