Chapter • 40

Reuben. [I]

When we finally arrived here, the gloomy state of Calavaria greeted us masked in its glum.

We reached the port province of Calavaria in less than three weeks after we had embarked on the journey to here. Normally it takes an utmost of two weeks to reach this little bustling province but travelling shrouded in an unassailable disguise across the country had slowed down our pace quite a lot; as such, we arrived later than our assessed date of arrival.

I dismounted from my horse and my sight fell upon the run-down city gates of Calavaria.

The people of Calavaria did not seem like the ones I saw three years back. The cobblestones of the streets were cracked and dilapidated. A gust of dry wind winded through the maze of ancient houses where windows ha