While Ollie joined the villagers in a celebration of his transformation into the youngest member of Ashlynn's coven, the youngest among Nyrielle's progeny was spending the evening in significantly more solitary pursuits.
The passing of the harvest festival ushered in the beginning of what should have been a quiet, restful winter for Lothian City. Across the frontier, villages checked their palisade walls, patched up their defenses, and prepared to weather not only the heavy snows of winter but also the attacks by demons who raided winter stores and poached from herds of livestock.
