Once they arrived.
Hazuki stopped at the front gate, staring at the house in silence. The stone walls were neatly stacked, the wooden frame strong yet warm, and beyond it the courtyard spread with a patch of green that felt strangely inviting.
The soft shimmer of the lake behind the house reflected the last rays of the evening sun, painting the scene in gold.
Damn… this is really nice.
Not too big, not too small…
A place like this, by a lake…
This is the kind of dream house I pictured when I thought about saving money and settling down.
His eyes softened as he imagined it.
Himself chopping wood in the morning.
While Ellyn humming by the window while cooking, children laughing as they ran barefoot through the courtyard. A home built with his own hands, in the beastkin kingdom, by a lake just like this.
Yeah… one day. A house for me and Ellyn… with a noisy bunch of kids running around.
But not here in a dwarven town… in her homeland. That's where it should be.
