The Last Heiress
"That's Stronghold Keep burning."
No one wanted to accept it at first. Corvin even suggested it might be something else, some other fire, some other town burning. But deep down, we all knew. We'd felt the presence of the Scourge, that psychic pressure that had never quite gone away. And now it had moved north, and had reached our destination before we could.
That night, Corvin called a meeting. We huddled around the fire like survivors of a shipwreck, and she made her announcement.