Holidays In The Sun is a short story that I wrote over the course of July to September of 2021. Effectively the third installment in a series of works inspired by Dungeons & Dragons (which should get a proper name at some point...), Holidays In The Sun takes place many years before the previous two works in the series, centering on the travails of Saeros Elendil, mercenary-for-hire sent on a mission to capture and interrogate a merchant after the sudden disappearance of an elven banker. When he finally gets to a small hut far from the edges of town, however, he not only learns more about the mysterious disappearance, but he also learns far more about the merchant's miserable life and her ailing daughter, and also ends up having to fight for them in the end.
Holidays In The Sun can be read right here. It's about 7500 words long.
The above image was drawn by Jun, whose art can be found here. While the figure above doesn't appear to have the pointed ears associated with elves, I liked the design enough to want to use it as a token for Roll20.
Some author's notes can be found after the jump, but keep in mind that they contain spoilers for this work.
