There was time. This was only the beginning. Before him spread the wide valley, the distant villages whose fate he still did not know, and the devils that lurked in the shadows, waiting for nightfall. His own house was little more than a foundation and timber frame, but in time, it would shelter them all from wind and rain. In time, he would make it a home, and a garden for all his people. In time, it would hold the new family he would make with Ophele of Aldeburke, the woman that he loved. In time, it would be a beauty and wonder.
