Jacob's POV
Elder Mirriane was the only Elder in Dwarvenhall that I hadn't given an assignment. She was the one who helped to explain the way the dwarves lived. She told me everything that I needed to know without withholding any information, no matter how repulsive it got. With time, I was starting to like her. She didn't seem to voice an opinion on anything around her which did make her a bit unreadable, but her tone and restraint from using coaxing methods to annoy me, as Boran had done before me, were all top-notch.
She commanded power in the village and made sure that everything that I asked was done with immediate effect. I made sure there was nothing like trash on the streets of Dwarvenhall and as we'd walked through, I'd decided the well was what I was supposed to attend to first. The village was shaping up. With the help of my earth magic, I would fix all the errors in their structure until they looked perfect.