Chapter 157

Despite having left himself plenty of time to travel, he was concerned that he would be too late and that he would succumb to his last breath.

The path to the cabin, however, turned out to be little more than a track after leaving the main thoroughfare in the settlement. As per the shoemaker, the village of Churuberg was the main hamlet of the South, the human territory. Up north was the gods' region, west for the sea people, or the atlantean, and east for the vampires and the seers. And now, travelling towards a small isolated place, Andrew realized that the rocky, uneven road had grass growing through it, and it didn't appear that many carriages ever drove on it.

But it was seclusion that he desired. "I wonder if this is the road they had in mind," he said, recalling an old saying about "going the road less traveled." After all, he wanted to get away from humans, not because he hated them, but because he was powerless, and weak.

The property, however, was maybe thirty m