17 Hearthfire

I woke early, and hiked up the hill to Tel Vos through the dew - Tel Vos is an imperial ruin dominated by a massive mushroom tower that seems to burst into the ruin's central building from coiling tendrils at the base, erupting from the top in a gravity defying series of fruiting bodies.

I think I made a good impression: I asked a house guard about whether Aryon was looking for a diplomat and they grunted a yes, and gestured upward to a fruiting body hanging from the larger mass, carved into a porch, with an ornate door in its face. It was early and I