PERSONAE · THE VALE

Nessa Oakhollow

A farmwife inside Valenfeld's wall whose husband walked out three days ago to check their old, abandoned farmstead and hasn't come home.

The Oakhollows gave up Emberlow two Lean Years back when the well failed, and took a smaller plot inside the wall where the water's steadier even if the soil's worse. They still hold the paper on the old place, and every so often Tam walks up to check the fences haven't been stripped for firewood. He left three mornings ago in good spirits, said he'd heard something had denned in the old byre and wanted to see what before it got into anyone's stock, and he has not come back. Nessa has not gone to House Vandahl about it — the garrison doesn't chase a missing farmer for free, and she doesn't have what they'd charge — so she's been asking everyone who drinks at Ahnassi's instead, offering what little she has (a share of this year's crop, her honest word, and a debt she'll actually pay) to anyone willing to walk up and look.

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