This place, however, had to be a quarter of the size of Silvermist. It was really just a circle of run-down little cottages with a tiny plaza in the center, which currently had a couple of sparse market stalls set up with residents milling around. The largest building was apparently the livestock barn at the edge of the cluster, which couldn’t have been even half the size of my mother’s mansion, and there were only a few cows and a couple of goats in the pasture.
I made a note of all of this as we made our way to the clinic, quietly wondering if I should propose absorbing this village into Silvermist. The extra support and numbers wouldn’t hurt any, plus the people here seemed like they could use our resources.
When we arrived at the clinic, Dr. Alfred was already there, looking su
