Dorkas: The day that changed my life, you ask? There were many. The last one... Ponders Haha, what am I talking about? Surely, you already know about the last one! Let me then tell you about, yes, something that troubles me even now. Frowns, as if trying to remember clearly I once had a dream. Not like that, I had many dreams. But that particular dream was astonishing. I was much younger than today. Just a youth.

My clothes felt heavy. As if I was harnessed to a cart, heading to a fair. In front of me were stairs. Steep steps! But beautiful, with a golden railing. I was climbing the stairs with my last remaining strength. But instead of growing exhausted with each step, it was becoming easier and easier. The clothes felt lighter and lighter. And having soared to the top of the stairs, I looked around. A vast city below me. A kind of city you could expect the rich Wizard Prince to live in. Two- and three-story buildings. Shining roofs. And temples, and harbors. And people! Dozens, no, hundreds of them were bustling about. Everyone was dressed in all the colors of the rainbow, and maybe more. I was being watched from below and from above, as if a warm presence I sensed there... His radiant face fell And from this height I fell down. My robes went as heavy as before. No, even heavier. I couldn't move at all. And I heard the people. Laughs and jokes, and swearing. At me! At me, I know it!

Having calmed down a little, he continued I had this dream once. And twice. And thrice. I don't remember how many times, but one day it stopped bothering me at all. My life was going on, and so was my story about the day that changed my life. One day I met my friend Cyoter. In him alone, fortune and nobility came together. Prowess and kindness. Don't tell him that I said it... We've been acting as wandering knights. I mean, he was acting as one, and I was as his squire. And we happened to travel through Fradin...