A Place of Refuge

In the Vale of Mists, Ollie stood at the center of several cookfires that were only a short walk downhill from the ancient roadway and the outermost gate that it passed through. 

Originally, when Ollie had volunteered to help receive the people fleeing from Owain's assault on the Eldritch villages outside the Vale of Mists, he fully expected to fall under the command of a more senior and experienced soldier or member of the castle staff. 

Things would have worked out that way if the cook's assistants that Georg sent had any idea how to feed an incoming tide of refugees. With a capable and experienced chef, many things became very simple. Unfortunately, it had been well over a decade since the people of the Vale had been on any kind of war footing and even then, Bors Lothian had never directly assaulted the Vale of Mists in the last war, his focus had been on plundering the wealth of Airgead Mountain.