Backstory:
*The long journey of the Dwarf Brunhilde and her human husband Mathir have taken them from her clan’s home mountains in the far south to the northern city of Algren. Their chosen route is a vast and ancient trading highway built by an insane emperor called the Mad King’s Road.*
*Just a month before their journey’s end, they meet Tobias, a dashing Envoy from the Kingdom of Raelen. Brunhilde finds her thoughts of him turning very naughty indeed. She and her husband decide to get their new friend a very unusual gift to ease his loneliness…*
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Mathir fidgeted about behind his wife, trying not to rustle the riot of tiny green leaves surrounding them in the underbrush. “I’m still not sure about this.”
“Hush!” she warned him with a hiss, peering out cautiously from their hiding place. Twenty paces away was the spot Hettie had talked about, a rocky clearing in the forest flanking both side of a small stream, with a few larger boulders strewn here and there along with a straggly selection of saplings.
“I don’t think we should be here. You were going to do this for Tobias’ benefit…”