You can't buy this red thread anywhere on the border. And yet every winter a strand or two turns up in the village, and whoever's carrying it can't say where they got it.

• RadomirMidwife. Write down the name of whoever received that thread, and the outpost will compensate you.
  YarinaAdministrator. I'm not in the business of taking names. I'm in the business of taking babies.
• VesnaThat thread only stays on a wrist that's paid its price in full.
  YarinaThen what's left on the wrist that hasn't paid?