The Wayfarer's Ledger · SETTLEMENT
Chapter 153
The Farroad Waystead
also called the Kept Road
House Farroad's caravan-gate, now on the Silkstrand shore where the far road actually begins: the one waystead on the old routes that never once closed, even the season the Marauders turned. Its old mainland hold on the southern flats is the Last Waystead.
A ring of stone-walled yards around a deep well, built to hold a full caravan's wagons and stock overnight without anyone sleeping unwatched. When the Reshi followed their own roads home, House Farroad moved the gate down to the Silkstrand, the salt-and-silk shore the road-blood came up from, and set it where the far road truly starts, leaving the old mainland yards as the milestone hamlet of the Last Waystead. Every trade-clan knows the Waystead kept its gates open through the worst of the turn, hiring guards it could barely afford rather than let a single route go dark, which is exactly the reputation Caravan-Mother Yeshka intends to cash in for a Great House's proper standing.