6 Jamie After dropping Shauna off to the test, and Taytra goes to apparently find Jacinta, their father passes through the gates and heads to a pub he has frequented several times over the years. The streets are milling with people, but not in way that makes his travels difficult. Jamie watches a few elven children who look to be around nine or ten, but for all he knows these children could be the same age as him. They aren’t tall enough to see over the crowd, so they dart between people trying to push their way through. He watches one girl scurry up a tree, she balances on the tree branch, pigtails swinging. Some kids sit on the side, these children were either too young to understand or, who had gotten bored watching the same thing happen over and over again over a hundred times. “Sir

