Nickolas O'Dan, and Children of the Wildlands
In the days when we were returning to the woods after the Great Remembering, there was a man named Nickolas O'Dan. He lived in the glen down by the meadow near the edge of the Blackened Forest. His home was cool gray stone with a living grass roof. Surrounding it was a grove of holly trees. Here he lived with his wife, Anna Skadi O'Dan, and their heard of wild elk, which they watch over. When Nick was in the cities, everything was disposable, but now that he was of the woods things were made to last. He loved children, having been a teacher before they moved to the woods, and upon coming to the woods, he expanded his hobby as a wood carver into his trade, and loved making gifts for others. Winter's cold months were coming, and Nickolas was thinking of how he could make it brighter for the children of the wildlands. As he pondered these things, Anna brought him a broken toy one of the woodland families. It was a plastic creature, a toy fox, brought...