The Winter Palace Revisited.

While exploring the desert, I discovered a distant palace that turned out to be Anbar, the place where everything began. Returning to the Winter Palace filled me with nostalgia as I retraced Nehal and Basim's old path. The palace was quieter now, with fewer guards, but the memories were louder than ever.

When I was exploring the desert, I suddenly noticed a palace afar. I knew its not Baghdad as the city was on the other side so I got excited to check it out and I started riding towards there.

It looked like an abandoned place/palace from a far but when I was getting close, I started seeing torch and peoples around.

And then I noticed this place is no other than Anbar, where it all started. I honestly thought Anbar and Winter Palace were parts of Baghdad but now I see its a different place and I there are still guards, guarding this place.

I can't express how nostalgic it felt when I was back at where it all began, whre memories started haunting me. I ran towards the Winter Palace right away and found the entrance was still guarded.

I followed the path that once Nehal showed me when we snuck in the palace beefore everything went upside down. And I reached that roof where Basim had the last proper converstaion with Nehal, where they planned their entry into the Winter Palace.

I decided to get inside the palace again, through the same path and this time I was alone, but I was trained as well.

After getting in, I stopped to check on the guards at the entrance. Though it looked like the palace was not being heavily guarded as it used to before.

I went ahead to check around and I found some peoples were like sleeping im the open and some were just gossipping.

I noticed this beautiful garden including a fountain, an artificial pond and some flowr plants around.

Then I was going deeper, towards the room where I messed it up last time. But there were two more guards at the other door and they noticed me from afar so they were coming towards me to get sure.

I was not looking for a direct conflict so I was getting out of their sight.

Until next time, happy gaming.