Life of Adventure

Caylin grew up a simple merchant's daughter in the town of Withermoure with her mother Brianne and father Paul. By day her father sold parchment, quills, ink, sealing wax, and other assorted items used for writing, but at night after a long day at his shop he'd go off to the town's tavern for a drink and to listen the adventurers passing through. After a drink or two he'd return home to his wife and daughter. As he'd tuck her into bed at night he'd retell Caylin the stories he'd heard from the adventurers at the tavern making an already curious and rambunctious girl even more so. The more she heard from her father the more she dreamed of having epic adventures like those from her beloved bedtime stories. She dreamed of fighting dragons, finding treasure, and rescuing the people from the missing posters on the boards at taverns...

*warning* some graphic violent content.
physical violence and some emotional trauma
adult content

this is a one shot backstory about a character I play in a tabletop rpg game called Dungeons and Dragons. It is completely fictional. I may later include some one shots about character mentioned in the story or may add more short stories about Caylin's numerous adventures.

Please feel free to comment or let me know if you'd like more short stories about any of the characters mentioned in the story. Thanks for reading