Role

Chapter 4

... dya, dya, quiet moans came from the forest, Nerh had been walking towards him for many days
now. The wolves followed him. The wolves waited, felt that he had no more strength.
Yes, Ithriel deceived him, there was no way out of the forest, there were no icy plains,
and especially no City. Only creepy forests and wolves, wolves.
"Hey, you, who's wandering around here," a deep voice was heard in the thicket.
Nerh froze and hide. "Why are you hiding, as if I don't see you," said the voice.
"Who are you, voice?" asked Nerh. - I am a forester and this is my home. Let's go to my shack.
In the shack, Nerh was given something to eat, he warmed up and began to perceive reality somehow normally.
- Well, are you one of the Village who got lost? You don't look like a warrior.
- No, I fled from there to find the City.
- What city? There are many cities in the North.
"I don't know, just not to be where you are not appreciated," said Nerh.
- You are young and too proud. That's how you would die.
- It's my business, how do I get to the City anyway?
Wolves howled outside the window.
- There's no way from here, you have to go through the Portal.
-Where is the portal?
- The portal is in Thar Acacia, but you may not get out of it alive.
Nerh shuddered. Back to the hated city...
- How did you escape from there? There are Guards at the gates.
I myself also dreamed of doing magic, but they didn't let me in, and there's no way back.
And I stayed here. I'm hunting. The forester smiled. At least I'm the best here, you know,
sometimes I rob the corpses of people passing here, clothes, money. Though they are not needed.
- Well, I want to be the best in my deeds, and you are already the best here.
"I wonder what the deeds you mean," asked the Forester.
- Now, destroy this entire city and, in general, all the magicians who would hang themselves for a coin.
- Well, you need to get to the Village, the descendants of the Battlerangers live there. If you learn to fight, you will be the best.
In the morning, leaving a note, "I will thank you, Forester, when I get to the Village," Nerh began his journey back to the hated city.