Two months passed swiftly as the late-summer heat gave way to the crisp, golden winds of mid-autumn across the central basin of Cloud-Mist Province.
During those two months, while Corbin and Feng Xiao rode hard southward from the northern volcanic wastes—concealing their identities beneath heavy mercenary cloaks and avoiding allJade Serpent checkpoints—life inside Alaric's hidden sanctuary in Cloud-Mist City and his northern fortress in Azure Fall City had never been richer.
