Eventually, Kosuke's dreams faded away and he found himself opening his eyes. The traveler blinked a few times, rubbed his eyes, sat up and stretched. It was a little cool out this morning in the mountains, with a think layer of fog rolling across the ground, but the weather felt like a godsend compared to what he'd been facing for the past couple weeks. At the very least, this was some relief from the heat of the rest of the nearby land.<br/><br/>The traveler sat up and fished some bread out of his bag for breakfast. He ate it at a comfortable pace, and when he was done he packed up, plucked his talisman from the air and went on his merry way.<br/><br/>The winding road he'd been on continued to curve. At last, after turning a corner around a group of trees, he could see a village not too far away. He was surprised how close he'd been sleeping to the place. If he had only walked for another half hour or so, he would have seen it and not have had to sleep outside. Oh, well. He was here now, and he was going to do what he did every time he entered a new town: Explore for a bit and heal any injured person he came across, and find the town's hospital if they had one and help out for a while.<br/><br/>Looking around, he saw the village to be rather ram-shackled. It was a mismatch of all kinds of buildings with one huge gray fortress at the back. He wondered if that fortress at the back was some sort of military base. Maybe this was a military village. Well, a mountain wouldn't be a bad place for something like that; good natural defenses. The traveler continued to wander around and get familiar with the layout of the mountain village.