I’m taking on this walk in memory of Miss Freeman, one of my teachers who passed away in September 2025. She was the kind of teacher who believed in everyone, even when we didn’t believe in ourselves. When I started at Whitby High school, it was Miss Freeman who introduced me to my group of friends through her D&D Club. It was Miss Freeman who made boring history lessons feel like fun activities, and when she was diagnosed with cancer earlier in the year, she passed on a collection of D&D worldbuilding that she had been working on for over a decade to my friends and I. I wanted to do something to honour that gift.

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