Southaven is a town in Westland, four or five days ride south on horseback from Hartland along Hawker's Trail. It is a place of thieves and misfits, little more than a collection of ramshackle buildings and houses fit crookedly in among the oaks and beech, almost as if to turn themselves away from the road, from the queries, from righteous eyes. None of the buildings looks like they have ever seen any paint.
