Chapter 348: The Scarlet Forest
Unfortunately, yesterday my ergonomic keyboard of many years decided to die on me. Instead of trying to write/edit on my phone I decided to call it. Fortunately, amazon had 1 day shipping and I got a replacement of the same model today. My mod sent out a message yesterday about the incident, but I wanted to give you all a clearer explanation. Thank you for waiting, without further ado, here's the chapter!
On the Ebon Realm, under the fluorescent canopy of the Glimmer Grove forest, walked a small party of three. At first glance, one might have called them an unlikely band of adventurers, though truth be told, none of them were looking for adventure.
But, perhaps fate had other plans for them, or perhaps fate wasn’t real at all, in which case they had somehow found themselves together in a bizarre series of coincidences that could be summed up as nothing more than them dancing to the tune of the universe’s chaotic nature.
Which was true? None of them knew, and if they were being honest with themselves, they didn’t want to.
The only certain truth was that they were an unlikely band of three.
The first of the three was their guide, a young idealistic drow who spent too much time reading her books and too little time walking, if the newfound blisters on the soles of her feet were any indication.
The second of the three was a beautiful noblewoman, a daughter of an orc Great House and Ruling Family of Hollow Shade. She had been raised a warrior like those who came before her, but she had spent most of her days in the comforts of society and magic, far from the battlefield and the wilderness of the Ebon lands.
The third of the three was an odd goblin. A half-goblin, probably, no one was quite sure, but odd, definitely odd. Even when he lived among his kind, he was different and had never quite fit in, as much as he strived to. When he had come to Hollow Shade, his upbringing had only made him stranger in the eyes of the city dwellers. When he came to Undergrowth he was recognized as an Ebon Aspirant and he became something else entirely in the eyes of others, a unique oddity to be admired and feared from afar. But to him, he had only found himself more estranged than ever. His family made him feel as if he wasn’t, but they weren’t here, at the edge of Glimmer Grove, far from Undergrowth where the party of three finally stopped walking.
Plum stumbled to a halt and threw her arms into the air, “Ugh! I can’t do this anymore! My feet are killing me!”