Laws {historical}

by Hildar Stormchild

I'm starting to get frustrated at the number of rules. I met a captain today, who told me they'd "decided to waive the death penalty this time" and told me if I was caught poaching in the barony's woods again he would be less lenient. I had no idea I was dealing with such high stakes, purely for hunting a boar. He gave me a big book, and told me to read it, and that I'd be spending a month in the cells to teach me a lesson. I don't know what's worse, struggling through the endless lists of petty rules or staring at the wall and going slowly mad.
In a way it makes me glad when the prison guards come to the bars to jeer, at least it's a distraction.

I remember watching the prisoners at the spring gathering when I was just a boy, as they stared sullenly into the distance. Thieves and murderers and worse, waiting for the word of the council to decide their future. I remember deciding they deserved their fate, to be trapped like a rabbit in a snare, for some they would become outcasts, and likely die from exposure on the open plain. I think maybe I was too quick to jump to conclusions, perhaps they were just lost and desperate. Or maybe I am giving myself too much credit, maybe I deserve this as much as they did, for leaving the snowy wastes.

Oh this is torture, as I pace the damp box and drive my grieving mind in circles. I can't even write to distract myself, I'm running out of ink

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A different life {historical}
Winter 1146AR

Hunting {historical}
Spring | 1147AR

Laws {historical}
Spring || 1147AR

Working, after a fashion {historical}
Autumn, 1147AR

Autumn leaves {historical}
Autumn, 1148AR

A friend {historical}
Summer, 1150AR

Spring storm {historical}
Spring, 1151AR

Strange people
1152AR |

Jackalware
1152 AR

Caves, Trees, and Hallucinations
1152 AR

Faliures and potions
1152 AR

Fear and fighting
1152 AR

Greed
1152 AR

Trying not to think about it and failing
1152 AR

Dice and near-death
1152 AR

Law and chaos
1152 AR

A force for change, and the same again
1152 AR

Around and down
1152 AR

Lure and Leader
1152 AR

Knives and Teeth {interlude}
1152 AR

Dragons and Other Things
1152 AR

Laws {historical}

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