Recruit's Letter

The writer tells of growing disgust with the vrakhiri: they take more with each mass, and someone new vanishes every week,

and transports of blood move through the valley. On the surface, he observes, it looks like merely a new knyaz

with new rules, as if nothing changed — but he pays attention, and things are shifting:

they are slowly being bled dry, and if allowed to continue, the valley will die and the monsters move on.