Rustic hovel interior with a glowing fireplace, wooden table, chair, and bed, sun rays stream through a window. Illustration style.

As the small wooden door swings open you enter into the hovel’s single room, its cramped and dim, its low ceiling sagging beneath the weight of patched timbers. A dirt floor, uneven and cold, bears the marks of many years’ footsteps and the scurry of mice. In one corner rests a straw-stuffed bed with a heavy chest at its foot, while across the room a crooked hearth smolders faintly, an iron pot blackened with age dangling above the weak fire. An old wooden table with two mismatched chairs sits close by, its surface scarred with cuts, stains, and the weary grooves of countless meals prior. See more