Smallwood Family/Finnegan/Senatorship

Finnegan was just waking up, having gotten his uniform on and was preparing to go out to the campfire to begin making his breakfast. "Sir!" a familiar voice said at his tent. "I have news," said Raedfleda, his captain.

Stepping out of his tent, Finnegan was immediately handed a letter, from the Consul. "Congratulations, Senator Finnegan. You have been elected as Senator of Naan Forest. You have a long road ahead of you to get the region re-populated, but I, as well as the realm, have the utmost confidence in you."

Finnegan was overwhelmed by emotion for only a second, before he was able to bury it deep within himself. Standing tall, he finally felt like he had achieved something. However, as he remembered where we was, and the destruction and hunger he had seen, he felt the gravity of the new mission here.

Finishing his breakfast, he ordered his men to break camp, and start to head towards the town center, where the Senator's manse was located. Only a few heads poked out of the windows as he and his men marched through the streets, their footsteps the only sound aside from the occasional dog barking or bird call. Quite a desolate place.

Arriving at the manse, seeing it having been ransacked and partially burnt down, he knew this was where the work began. Finnegan split his men into two 25 man sub-units; one to rebuild the manse, and the other to patrol the streets and to keep the peace. The remaining 4 men, including Raedfleda, would be his personal guard.

Walking down the street to the courthouse, Finnegan assumed the seat and had the clerks inform the town crier of his intent to hold court. He was desperate to raise loyalty here, amongst people that hated Halcyon so strongly.

Suddenly, in burst a group of many men, yelling obscenities, yelling, a few with saws and homemade spears. They were quickly arrested and removed from the courthouse, but the damage was done. Finnegan would have to wait until tomorrow to hold court here. These people will require a lot of time to get used to Halcyon, he thought to himself. Best we give them plenty of food and try to win their hearts that way.