Leoric let out a grunt of effort as he hefted the large log onto his shoulder, he may be quite a bit stronger then most men, but this log was pushing him near his limit of carrying. As he trod through the forest back to his little campsite he couldn’t stop but think about his travels the last few days.

He had landed in a neighboring port town, they had the deeper waters to allow larger ships to dock, and had immediately been put on a rescue mission to save an orphan who had been kidnapped by a group of bandits trying to become a powerful force. It wasn’t until they had gotten to the bandit camp that they learned why the orphan was needed for such an endeavor.

She has the power of precognition, she saw things in the future before they happened and could change the future based on those visions. The bandits had wanted to use this ability to take over a few towns and then fight the armies that came to dethrone them with superior strategy from her visions.

Leoric had the help of Felicity, a red haired beauty that could destroy most men with just a glance. Felicity was trying to be as ‘good’ as she could be. But without thinking too much of the other side of things. And his time with her was spent trying to teach her to think on the long term effects of her actions.

After a decently complicated fight with the bandit leader, Leoric and Felicity came out on top and quickly grabbed the girl and brought her with them to New Brookeshaven, Leoric taking responsibility for the young one and vowing to protect her at all costs. On the ride to New Brookeshaven they found out she didn’t even know her own name, and so Leoric gave her one ‘Kylie’

It had been almost a week since they had gotten back home, and Leoric had already enlisted the help of a few craftsmen in town to work on getting himself a proper home or residence for himself and kylie. However, there seemed to be a lack of lumber shipments coming into town, so they didn’t know when there would be enough to start work on a new house. He had plans to head to the trademaster in charge of sending out the shipments in the next few days to figure out what the problem was. He just had to get Kylie comfortable with the new town and the townspeople before he left her with his best friend for a few days.

As sweat dripped down his face, he could feel a cool breeze caress his sweat soaked skin. He looked up and saw someone sit down on his pond’s edge and dip their feet in. his guard went up immediately as his instinct was telling him she may look pretty and lithe, but she had a dangerous amount of potential. Kylie was hiding behind a tree and looked at him with a smile before she turned to look at the stranger.

“She came up from the stream, not the road.” Kylie whispered as Leoric walked past.

“Alright darling, wait for me to motion if it's safe alright?” Leoric ruffled her hair with his free hand as he walked past her before turning and trying to reassure her. “Don’t forget, I promised to protect you no matter what.”

With the monstrous log still on his shoulder he walked out of the woods and into the clearing. The setting sun illuminating him, glistening off his enchanted leather vest, barely hiding a sweat soaked white shirt underneath. His hands mostly hidden behind a pair of fingerless gloves. The sweat stained brawler attempted a hair flip but the sweat had caused his hair to get stuck to his face, obscuring some of his vision. He approached the newcomer as they sat at the pond edge. His muscles bulging in complaint at the weight that he was carrying.

“Do you often wash your feet in someone else’s pond?" he joked as he took a few more steps before dropping the log on the ground not far from the pond, with a ground shaking thump, but close enough to the campfire that once firewood was chopped up it could easily be added to the fire.

“The name is Leoric, and this is my home. If you are staying the night, you can help with some chores at least.”