Hermit's Journal

This mouldy journal belongs to a hermit who has lived alone for years. He writes that soldiers of Brencis, the new Knyaz, recently visited and ordered him to abandon his hut, explaining they had established a camp nearby and needed to secure the perimeter — a word the hermit does not even know.

Though he doubts the talk of the vrakhiri — Skender, he notes, was a monster too, but an ordinary human one — his answer to the eviction is simple: he is not going anywhere.