The last few days in Ledetchko had been eventful, to say the least. The ride there had been both shorter and longer than Henry remembered; there was something about the familiar curve of grassy hills, the small paths without concrete or stone, the quiet among the trees– he’d rarely paid this much attention to it before.

But with so much time spent among the strange, man-made places of Fandom and its future, it was a welcome sight. A way to set his mind back to rights. He could now say he enjoyed the adventure of it all, but Rattay and its nearby villages was home, a soothing balm to his soul.

That feeling had stuck with him all the way to Ledetchko, and then it had fled him the second he saw smoke pouring upwards from behind the hill. Not a fire, no, just chimneys. But he had a job to do. He wasn’t just here to admire the scenery.

( It was a good thing he had his journal on him... )

[[ taken from Kingdom Come Deliverance (2018). CW for discussion of animal death. nfb, nfi! ]]