The Craftsman

As it was now winter the lake behind the palace began to slowly but surely ice over, and as it did the first snow of winter fell . The entire city was covered in a light layer of snow . Due to the snow and cold the city began to have a festive air to it . The fact that the city was absolutely safe complemented this and everyone seemed to be closer to eachother .

Daedalus was currently sat by the fireplace in a big and soft chair reading a story book to the twins and Richard who sat on the fluffy rug just in front of the fire . The story was an adventure to reclaim a dwarven kingdom under a mountain, that was taken from them by a great and powerful fire drake . Richard seemed to have a weird light in his eyes as the story went on so Daedalus eventually asked .

"Well, um, the story sounds exactly like a story I already read . " Richard chuckled . Daedalus chuckled lightly as well and said "Well this story is based off of a real event from long long ago . I believe "the Shire" that was mentioned would be from when the dark and light shire regions where still one five hundred thousand years ago . Though I am not sure where the mountain was, I think it may have been destroyed though . "

To say Richard looked shocked would be an understatement, but Daedalus didn"t mind him and simply went back to the story . As he went on and the hours pa.s.sed by, it soon became dark and the twins began to nod off . Andromeda who had been busy all day finally returned only to see the twins falling asleep in a cute manner while Daedalus read to them .

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A few minutes later the twins could be seen asleep in their beds, Richard was in another room though similarly asleep . After getting the kids to sleep Daedalus took his time and walked with Andromeda back to the living room . When they arrived Daedalus sat back down in his chair and opened up a different book .

The book he was reading was called the book of laws . In essence it was a book with basic information and descriptions of all known laws from several different perspectives . Daedalus had been reading it lately as he felt it would be beneficial to his future, let alone that it was quite enjoyable to read .

Andromeda, herself was sitting on the chair opposite him reading a book detailing the elemental laws . She had started doing this after she was told by Daedalus why he was reading the book of laws . She however focused only on the elemental laws as she found she was far more interested in them .

And so they sat in silence simply enjoying eachother"s presence while they read their books . A few hours later Daedalus stretched and lay down on the sofa in the middle of the two chairs . Andromeda saw this and joined him to cuddle on the warm sofa in front of the fire .