Somewhere Worth Staying

Haven is a small place. Most maps don't bother with it. Tucked against the edge of a sprawling forest, beside a river that has no interest in hurrying, it is the kind of village where everybody knows your name, your parents, and exactly what you were doing last Thursday. It is quiet. It is unhurried. It is, for better or worse, home. Here, among old friends and familiar faces, life moves at its own pace. There are no dark lords, no ancient prophecies, no world-ending stakes. There is Bramble, who has just talked three children into something inadvisable. There is Nora, who saw it coming. There is Kira, who is, once again, someone's problem. And there is you; young, alive, and standing in the middle of an ordinary day in an extraordinary world.