User blog:Lathagarr Stormgale of Tronn/Ben of Fairwick

==Chapter One== Dust rose in thick clouds on the path to Fairwick Castle as all manner of beasts came from the surrounding vastness of Green Forest to Sunbright's meadow where the Spring Festival was to be held. Gaily colored carts and tents of every hue were popping up all along the path as bright pennants fluttered in the breeze. The young mouse, Benifarin or "Ben" as he was usually called, struggled with a large roll of brightly colored silk as he was watched over by his mentor, the shopkeeper, Lurth, a large stern mouse in his middle seasons. ben had never known his father or mother, they had died only a week after he was born of the Great Disease that had swept through Green Forest, killing many in Fairwick Castle and it's village Fairglen.