One week later, in the morning, Liam, Lancelot, Robert, and Julian hopped off their carriage, soon joined by Isabel, who came from the coachman position.
After concocting everything Lancelot had requested, the team had immediately left Kilrest, and it could now lay eyes on its real destination.
The lingering humidity from the recent downpours lowered the colder-than-usual temperature, as if the weather had forgotten that spring had come.
That didn't apply to the vegetation. Grass and moss covered a vast plain, being more flourishing near the calm river cutting through it.
Patches of all kinds of flowers also grew, creating a multicolored spectacle. Those obviously weren't natural occurrences. They were a garden that highlighted paths through the plain, leading to those who managed it.
A white building rose at the center of the garden. It was large, four-story tall, and with the emblem of a stylized man with spread arms and legs inside a copper circle in the roof's corner.
