Chapter 168

The manor was finally quiet.

After days of rebuilding, planning, and tending to new arrivals, even the most restless had succumbed to exhaustion.

Fires burned low in the hearths.

The children who had filled the halls with laughter were now bundled in beds, dreaming safe dreams for the first time in years. Even the guards on the borders kept their steps soft, as though unwilling to disturb the frag