GAZETTEER · THE VALE
The Waybread Hearth
aka the wayfarers' rest
A wayfarers' rest house at the Span's near end, kept by the Grey Walker's cairn-keeper for anyone stuck waiting on the toll queue, a broken axle, or bad weather over the gorge.
Old Ness keeps the cairn-shrine by day and the Hearth by night, and treats both as the same job: seeing that nobody crossing the Span goes cold, hungry, or unremembered. There's always bread, always a fire, and always a stone by the door for anyone leaving in the morning to add to the cairn on their way — the Grey Walker's prayer is a stone, not a word, and Ness has never once turned away someone who didn't know that yet. Drovers stuck at the toll for days sleep here for free; she says it's cheaper than watching them get desperate enough to try the ford.
KIND
structure
PARENT PLACE
The Span
SETTLEMENT
Highbridge
REGION
the vale
Connected
Type Fields
All Relationships (3)
located_in
- →The Span — The Waybread Hearth stands at the Span's near end.
owns
- ←Old Ness — Old Ness keeps the Waybread Hearth.
references
- →The Waking Cairn — The Hearth stands beside the cairn-shrine Old Ness also keeps.
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