Terms of Severance

MAEVIA

I arrived at the tavern just before midday. No pack guards stood outside the entrance, and the owner never allowed public disputes inside the hall. That was why Torin had chosen it.

I stepped through the wooden doors and looked around the room. Torin was already there.

He sat at a table near the back of the tavern where the shadows from the beams above dimmed the light. When I walked closer