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Dragging baggage

  The Road to windfall keep

  Traveling back always has a different feeling than the journey to somewhere

  A feeling not talked about often in the bards songs

  After the time it takes to lick our wounds so we can even just stand

  Bury the dead if needed…

  Or drag the corpse back if possible

  It’s often feels anticlimactic in a way

  The feeling of success… underpinned by everything that happened before

  The money not truly being worth the friends it sometimes costs

  It’s something many adventurers wish never to feel, instead just wanting to bask in the success of a kill or swim in the loot of a dungeon

  But that’s not what we get

  We get dead friends, scars that can never heal, and often the task of dragging a corpse for miles into civilization

  Beast and man alike

  One for profit

  and the other for respect

  And sometimes we have to bring them both back

  And so I carry my friend home.

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  His story might be over but he shouldn’t just be left on the dirt in mine

  Hopefully his family can finish his work

  Even if he never got the chance to forge with the dragon scales that he helped fell

  His family should be able to finish his life long project

  He was a amazing man, wanting nothing more than to make people happy

  Forging wonders and inventing amazing things

  He was the friend who would kill a dragon for just the right material for his work

  The man who put his everything into everything he made

  Even if it’s just to make a pig fly

  Just because his brother said it was the only thing he couldn’t do

  We never deserved him

  And he never should of sacrificed himself for me

  He was going to achieve more than I could ever possibly imagine

  I’m not even going to be able to continue my work

  Although he saved my life I still lost my hand

  And I have not the means to recover it

  So I drag the corpse of the man I trusted more than anything back home

  Hoping not to be the one who has to tell his family

  He deserved better. They deserve better than me

  The coward who couldn’t even tell him on his deathbed

  That I loved him…

  This isn’t right

  He didn’t deserve this..

  I need to make it right

  Whatever it takes

  I’ll find a way to bring him back

  For his family …

  And when I do. I will fix my cowardice

  and hope he will not hate me

  But first I need to bring him back home

  Home to his family

  To his smart ass of a brother

  To his sweetheart of a mother

  And to his father

  Who I hope he knew was proud of him

  And most importantly, bring him home to his daughter…

  I hope she’ll forgive me

  For being the reason her father died

  The man who taught her to forge

  I don’t think I’d ever be able to forgive me

  Especially for what I must do next

  For what gods I must invoke

  And for who I must deal with to bring him back

  May the ferryman have mercy on me

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