Chapter 6
When Bandefin returned to the home of the Dwarves, deep in the Northern Sikyu Mountains, his three sons greeted him. Beorn was the eldest, nearly fifty-eight now, and ready to start developing his own skills in support of the Clans.
His youngest boys, Volin and Jadon, were forty-seven and thirty-seven, just barely old enough to leave their mother's side. Diagora was the love of his life, and Bandefin would do anything she asked. She never raised her voice with the boys. She kept a clean house and was active in the community of the last living Dwarves.
"Welcome home, my husband.” Diagora greeted Bandefin with a hug and kiss. Dwarf women were nearly indistinguishable from Dwarf men—unless of course you were a Dwarf—and often sported much nicer beards than their husbands. A man w
