Mine

Timestamp: Ostiarium - Barracks

Tarmen - With time away from your hunting and scouting duties, your body recovers well from the ordeal in Sentinel Island. You have nursed worse injuries than the ones you suffered in this expedition. A message from the Keep informs you have been assigned to the city's Territorial Army as a soldier.. No longer a hunter or scout. You move into the barracks closer to the Keep where you share one room with one other soldier. More coin comes with the position and you are to join the drills taking place in the plains beyond the forest as soon as you recover.

But sleep eludes you even after drinking heavily. You can't seem to sleep more than a couple hours every night. When you do, the voice of the dust devil creature, echoes in your mind.
~Mine~
Over and over and over again until you jolt back awake. It doesn't feel like a nightmare but almost a memory. And when you wake you cannot but look down at the shrunken head of the demon you claimed as a trophy.

One day drinking late into the night, with some fellows by the docks, you hear about some crazy concoction being sold in the streets of Ostiarium that can help you sleep. If you have the coin or contacts that is. Seems the loggers are selling some in Lowood.

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