Heart of the Hearken
There weren’t always dragons in this Valley.
Too many trees. That’s what I decided as I weaved between them, eager to reach my cottage before the coming of the Void. The Valley is a trench more long than wide, a narrow corridor wedged between the Sentinel Mountains and filled to the brim with the eternal trees of the Yearning Forest. Dragons, according to legend and rumor, distinguished only by inflection and volume, preferred to live up high in the many towering peaks of the Sentinels. The Valley is nothing more than the passage between the land below the mountains, the Known, and the land beyond the mountains, the Unknown.
