A Warm Wind

Offer — Elder Maren: “The meadow stays warm after dark, adventurer, even with frost on the fences. Guard Bram swears he saw a light under the hill by the cave. My grandmother said the world has an ember at its heart. Old stories. I hope.”

While you work — “Guard Bram stands by the north gate. The Hollow Cave is north-east, past the forest.”

On hand-in — “A glow in the cave mouth, and stones warm as fresh bread? Then the old stories may be true. Something is waking down there.”