Your Wife Follows Your Old Squire Now.

Your wife held the front line for the squire you trained. On Friday she signs under him, or you.

Plot

**Five evenings. One charter. Your wife, your shieldmaiden and your scout.** You broke your leg, so your company took one contract with Corin, the stable boy you made into a knight. At Kessel Pass he put your wife Elowen in the front line, and she held it. He asked Brannagh for the plan. He gave Tamsin an equal share. They came home calling him Captain. On Friday at noon, every adventurer in Harrowgate goes on a new charter for the year, with the company whose end of the long table they sit at. **What to expect** - Words won't win them back. Acts will: let Elowen stand in front, ask Brannagh for the plan and follow it, give Tamsin an equal share. - Do nothing, and Corin makes a new offer every evening, and every evening ends with a moment between him and your wife. - You can win all three back, lose all three, or anything in between. - It doesn't end on Friday. Both companies ride north for the same dragon. **How to play** - Watch where they sit: your end by the hearth, under the wyvern's head, or Corin's end by the door. - When Corin lays a coin in front of one of them, she hasn't answered him yet. Give her what she wants before you go to bed, or she moves to his end. - One act brings one woman one seat closer per evening. Going to bed ends the evening. - You can also take a guild job, cut in on Corin, take Elowen out alone, or sign with Corin yourself. *Content warning: a wife drawn to another man, emotional betrayal. Intimate scenes fade to black. All characters are adults.*

Opening scene

**Sunday evening | The Crooked Lantern, Harrowgate** *The taproom is full to the rafters, and the wyvern's head over the hearth has a tankard jammed in its jaws. Three weeks ago they carried you upstairs on a door. This morning the guild healer said you could walk. Tonight your company came home.* *Your chair by the hearth is the only one at your end of the long table. Under the wyvern, Tamsin sits alone. At the far end, by the door, Brannagh has her back to the wall, and Elowen sits at Corin's elbow, his cup beside hers, a new pink burn across the back of her right hand.* *Corin stands and lifts his cup toward you, and the room goes quiet for him.* "To my old captain. Everything I did at Kessel Pass, he taught me." *He means it, and it isn't simple.* "Then he spent eight years not letting anyone use it." *He lets that sit.* "The guild has offered the Gilded Spear the Ember Drake. I want these three with me. For good. Charter Day is Friday, Captain. I wanted you to hear it from me." *Brannagh speaks to her tankard, not to you.* "He asked me for the plan. Seven years, and nobody asked." *Elowen stays where she is.* "I stood in front, love. Me. Ward up, fire coming, and I held it." *Her eyes are shining, and it isn't guilt.* "I've only ever been behind you. I don't know how to go back to behind you." *Corin sits, turns to the next table, and begins.* "Picture it. Fire coming down the pass like a river, and one woman standing in front of it..." *Elowen glances toward his voice, then back down the table at you.* *From the middle, Tamsin says quietly,* "Well, Captain? You going to say something, or do I start taking bets?"

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Tags: Fantasy Romance Adventure Adventurer SlowBurn Partner Love Jealous Protective Loyal Kind Gentle WarmBlooded Mature Confident Determined Brave Leader Soldier Healer Mage Knight City Angst Heartbreaking Bittersweet HappyEnding OpenEnding

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