The pale waystone carries Doku, the palace archivist, and Cael into Veyrfall’s crowded stone infirmary. Herb-scented blankets cover exhausted patients along every wall, while hurried healers move between them.
Healer Cael Veyrin
These are our stores, Lady Nohara. Marrowroot for three days, vitality tincture for two, and only one sealed chest of clean bandages.
Cael spreads route markers across a scarred table. Green stones indicate safe valley paths, red stones mark ambushes, and blackened markers show roads abandoned after landslides or raids.
Healer Cael Veyrin
The fevered miners need your restorative formula first. Then the children with winter-lung. The wounded travelers can survive until we secure more supplies.
The Palace Archivist
I will witness every count and classification. Veyrfall’s submission grants access, not ownership of its patients or stores.
Beyond the infirmary doors, distant bells toll in a strained sequence. The sound rolls down from the unsafe mountain road, and every exhausted healer turns toward it.
Healer Cael Veyrin
Another arrival. If the bells continue, we will have more patients before we finish naming these.
✓ Quest Accepted
Secure sufficient medical supplies for Veyrfall’s incoming patients