Gael Wordsworth jumped at the invitation the second he could. A Freemaiden of Paws by the name of Enna said she would be willing to meet him at the once bustling town and help him in his endeavor to find books for the King's Library. As the Steward upon the Great Council, he took his duty to the King's Library and the preservation of history and knowledge as to heart as the Avatar himself held the virtues. Indeed there were ghosts in the village of Paws. So many houses, dwarfed by a huge stone tower in the center, all empty of the people to whom they belonged; and the perhaps the most ephemeral of them all was Enna herself. She spoke briefly of the good folk that once lived in the area before leading Gael to the first of several locations. A small, private library: Arasy's Arcane Archive. Upon entering it, the smell of old cracked parchment filled his senses and at once felt that this could have been his home in another life. Enna was polite and waited patiently as Gael began the arduous (if not numbing) task of copying book after book, tome after tome, explicitly careful with each historied page. His pack began to fill with fresh copies of old tales and the history of Paws. Upon completion in the small library, Enna escorted him next to the noble home of the Knights of Britannia. A tower which made Gael feel small. Here, within the walls of history itself Gael found many tomes of tales long forgotten by the people who no longer walk among the population. Just as before, Enna showed kindness and patience as he painstakingly copied each and every tome available to him in the recesses of the library, nestled in the midst of the great tower. After a a long deal of time, and the task completed, Enna was kind enough to grant him access to the archives within the main tower of Paws itself - a task which ultimately nearly crippled poor Gael's back, as the number of books weighted down upon him so. Whilst copying the tomes, Enna spoke a little of the legendary leader of the town, a man named Jupiter, and spoke a little of others who once roamed the lands. She must have decided Gael was trustworthy in his endeavor to preserve the history of this once great town, for she then led him to the Great Hall where Gael found the very core attributes and ceremonies that were so important to Paws written out in several well-protected tomes - these were the heart of Paws itself. Whilst making freshly-inked copies of the bylaws and historic roster of the town, Enna told the story of her initiation ceremony. She had shed all of her worldly possession, and indeed her very flesh for the town of Paws, before being reborn anew in what was one of the most elaborate ceremonies explained to him (and he was no stranger to such practices, for he had encountered many in the books he has acquired for the King's Library). The added tomes to the already bursting sack threatened to crush Gael with the weight of history itself. The last stop for the evening (for indeed the whole day was spent at this task) was Enna's Tailor shop. Entering the log cabin in the midst of the woods, Gael was impressed by how neatly laid-out it all was, how the well kept for a building on the periphery of a dead town. Enna explained that, like the others of the town of Paws, she was leaving the lands. After having spent the day with this Freemaiden, Gael had trouble fathoming the permanence of her words and actions. Her Tailor shop would decay and fall into disrepair, but it is not the building that Gael mourned. Enna herself had proven to be a font of historical knowledge and stories, which nobody else would ever hear or be part of again. He asked her if she would, before she left the lands for good, write some of her stories down to be added to the grand collection already accrued. She stated she most likely would not. Whatever pieces of history she embodies will go with her. Gael choked up slightly but understood. Everything and everyone that she had loved in the past has moved on, and she wanted to move on, too. With a promise and a vow to protect the books, tomes, stories, and history of Paws with the utmost diligence, Gael bid farewell to this transient person, whom he had known but for such a short time and left quite an impactful impression. The greatest regret Gael felt was that he had not met Enna and the people of Paws sooner. The Tailor shop, like Enna and many others, will fade in time. With the books to be situated within the King's Library, Enna, and indeed many of the folks of Paws and their history will not be forgotten.
