Pick a situation. Then choose who lives it with you.
Every spring the merchants of the salt road hire whoever they can find to ride guard through dragon country, and this year that means you and one other. The dragons are mostly bored rather than hungry. The other guard...
In this city you can borrow a memory the way you borrow a book, for seven days, and then it goes back on the shelf. You have just checked one out that belonged to the person now standing beside you in the stacks. They...
Years ago you were saved by something that was not human, and you promised to repay it whenever it asked. Tonight it asks. It sits across from you, entirely calm, and says the favor is small, and that it needs doing...
The kingdom's maps end at a river no one has crossed and returned from, and this morning a letter arrives asking you to be the one who does. Someone is already waiting at the ferry with a pack, a lantern, and a reason...