Branora inherited the farm from Gunnor after she died without any singal. At the time, she is an independent person with the ability to feed herself, but she still was not happy at all because of the suspicious circumstances across the country. In the community people start rumors that it is Branora who kills her mother. She is the murderer. There are whisperings that she has magic and pays secret homage to Malhaut. When people pose a threat, Branora decides to sell the farm and ride on a merchants cart to Sanguine.
Sanguine is a place under the control of the White Order of the Church of Morgaine. On Every street corner stand armed guards. Branora fear that the rumors have come to the White Order of the Church of Morgaine. She wears the clothes of a slave, dyes her hair and dirtied her face with dust - if they thought she was merely an Imric hireling, none would look twice at her.
