Somewhere in Fire Town.
Leon's figure emerged from the dark tree line, stepping out of the forest and into the edge of town from the side where no gate stood.
Fire Town was porous by nature. Not many guards. Not much structure holding the perimeter together. You could walk in from almost any direction if you knew where the gaps were, and Leon knew them all by now.
He moved without hurry, crossing into the outskirts and heading straight for his house.
He had paid a full year's rent before leaving. No one would have touched the place in his absence, and no one had. The door was exactly as he'd left it.
Luckily the inheritance ground had been time wrapped. If it hadn't, he'd be walking back to an empty lot and a landlord with no memory of him.
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"The swindler."
Levi's voice drifted over from slightly above and to the left.
