Chapter 43: Welcome to Durnca

Because of bandits, we followed the longer route to Durnca, it took a day and a half with us spending the night in an Inn. We would have slept in the wagon, but it was January and outside was cold. It didn't mind how long it took us to get to Durnca, it gave me time to brace myself for my new life in Durnca.

I had only two goals in mind; search for my mother and start up my very own salon. Of course neither of them would be easy... I only knew my mother's first name and I had no money to start up my business. I had to take things slow.

We arrived at Durnca in the afternoon of the second day and I was left to enter the town alone. It was smaller than I imagined and the houses were even smaller, but that made it a lot perfect.

I didn't know which house belonged to Gwen's father, so I wandered about until I found an elderly woman, sitting in her rocking chair on her porch and knitting a shawl. 

I approached her.

"Hello, I..."

"Is it old ag