Monk’s Journal

Anselme, a wandering friar in Vale Sangora lodging at a Maragir-side abbey, writes against the chance he dies.

One night Brencis's soldiers came rounding people up with death threats; Father Foulcard pressed a bag into his hands and told him to run.

Arrow-struck in flight, he shook his pursuers inside Shrike's Crag quarry — ill-reputed ground, but the sole refuge. Bleeding, freezing, unable to lug the bag onward, he stowed it deep in the workings by a crane, for the finder to claim.