Hours later, as the sun began to slip beneath the western mountains, a carriage bearing Ashlynn and her coven clattered along a recently built dirt road toward the newest village in the Vale of Mists.
"I know it's a bit rough," Ollie said as the carriage jostled its occupants while bouncing along the road. "Most of the roads connecting villages are designed more for carts than carriages, but with so much material to transport to the village, we needed to be at least able to have wagons coming along the road."
"Then will you let the forest grow back now that you're done building the village?" Heila asked, gazing out the carriage window at the clear-cut path that had been blazed through the cedar forest to make way for the dirt road. "It's a lot of work to maintain a road like this."
