Tags: F!Watcher
Notes: Prompts are from Pillars of Eternity Fic Prompts on Tumblr.
PoETober 2018
Prompt #1: Pillars
A jagged row of massive pillars swirled emerald green against the bright blue sky, towering over the forest path even from the crown of the mountain where they stood some miles away.
Adra, the caravan master had called them.
Even in the Living Lands, En had never seen the like before. Or at least not like this. Small trinkets and amulets of strange stone, lines of glimmering inlaid pebbles in weapons made more for show, and on the rare occasion the carved disc of an enîach from Eir Glanfath. Once she'd seen a paperweight of the stuff on the desk of a merchant who'd come all the way from Old Vailia. She'd never had a chance to do more than look, however, as her grandfather had been quick to snatch up any he could get his hands on for his experiments.
But she'd never imagined this.
Papa would have had a field day here, she mused as she squinted up at the rocks.
Perhaps she could…
No. No, she wasn't here for that. She'd left that life behind. Here she could start a new life, with a new home and new people. After finding little luck wandering the Dyrwood for several months, the offer of land from the lord of Gilded Vale to settlers had sounded nearly too good to be true for her sore feet.
It'll be a whole new beginning, she promised herself.
En wiped the sweat from her oddly warm brow. Yes, a new beginning.