Evelina's father, the owner of the Red Maple Leaf Tavern, Carl Virgil—a worried middle-aged man—had sighed many times and considered selling the tavern, pooling their money to move to a more prosperous territory in the South to start life anew.
It was just that moving to a new place was no easy feat; it required a lot of money and connections. Evelina had grown up in Ankera Town since she was a child, never having left this barren land. Her understanding of the vast outside world all came from the boastful stories of adventurers at the drinking tables. Although the tavern's business was worse year after year, Evelina was still reluctant to leave and didn't want to part with this place. She couldn't even imagine how she would live on the outside, or if her father would, due to poverty, casually find someone to marry her off to.
