Calm Before The Storm
Things in life didn't always have to be difficult…but this time, this wasn't the case.
Call it karma... call it a causal relationship.
If you mess up with someone, it is more probable to be messed up in the future.
Eric had reasonably expected that day to come eventually.
The day destiny would present him the bill because Cain's murder had finally arrived.
The light illuminated the day of Zolgas, everything apparently proceeding as usual.
Some adventurers returned from the Cinder Forest without Shark, but everything was ignored as simply the lazy act of the stronger taking advantage of the weaker.
The soldiers on the city walls were looking toward the horizon, checking for enemies.
Loud stall vendors were the alarm clocks for many of the citizens.
No shouts or cries in the streets, apart from the prices advertised by the merchants.