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Once upon a time, a man took his family through the Frozen Forest. After being drove out this was their attempt to return to their lands after the wars. He is returning with his two children and wife who is with child. Upon arriving on the back of a wagon Araden sent his family to get supplies. His wife Gala and their daughter Adeiel went to the market area. They gathered clothes, furs, and food. Araden and his son Theorix went to get a wagon, tools and some weapons from the village blacksmith. Theorix mostly played with their dog as his father bought the dog and reindeer. They regrouped by the lumber mill. Araden got some scrap wood to enclose the top of the wagon over the cloth top. "That should help us stay warm and keep the ice ones off us as we go through the forest."
He told Gala as she was handing supplies to their daughter. Theorix was wrapping up bundles of sticks to load in the wagon when Gala called for him to get in the wagon. Gala laid the furs out in the middle of the wagon with their blankets. Then she loaded up the bedrolls into the wagon.