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Maith Seamhair, or happy end of autumn in Frewyn! To celebrate Frewyn's day of the dead, Twisk decided to carve a pumkpin in honour of Damson's Distress publication:  See the resemblance? Either way, Bartleby is not pleased. Damson's Distress, the first of the Marridon novels, will be out presently, but in the meantime, visit our Patreon page and read all the excerpts from our forthcoming novella The Slave Galley! Maith Seamhair, and happy reading!

Gearrog the Brickmaker is a famous brick and tile maker from a small town in northeastern Westren. He's known in Westren as a master builder, but to the kingdom, and especially to the castle keep, he is known as Vyrdin's saviour. He was the man who reported and testified against Carrighan, the man who made himself Vyrdin's tormentor before Vyrdin came to the keep, and while Gearrog was well-rewarded for his honesty and bravery in coming forward and saving Vyrdin's young life, he still tends his kilns and returns home to Westren for the autmn hunts when he can: “ B orras ,” Dirrald breathed, gawping at the chandelier and following it upward to the skylight. “I never thought this place would look like thess. Ah never thought there’d be o’ thess glass. From the outside—well, from where we were standin’—the lodge looks liek it’s maed from brick and stone.”                 “Aye,” said Bhaunbher, in a thril...