Alex put another piece of wood over the fire and waited in silence for the morning to come.
When the first light of sunshine entered the shelter through the chimney, Alex began taking care of breakfast while waiting for the others to wake up.
The noise he was making with the pots and pans slowly woke up James Macdonald, who approached while rubbing his eyes. “Good morning, Mister Alex. Is it my impression, or are you louder than usual? Did you make all this racket on purpose to wake us up?”
“Kind of. Help me here. We need to have a quick and light breakfast because a horde of Monsters came from a Magical Void tonight. They are still a couple of hours’ ride ahead of us, but they are on our path. Okami went to meet them to make sure they wouldn’t kill any travellers or Merchants, and she
