The old man tapped his cane once more and looked at me for a long time. The torch lit only half of his face.

YeomunYou ain't answerin'… so you heard it, didn't ya.

HarinWh… who are you?

YeomunName's Yeomun. I stood where you're standin' long before you… the last interpreter.

YeomunCome with me. Too many ears out here.

He took me to a narrow little room inside the castle wall. One candle. And the walls… were covered in writing. In chalk, in charcoal, even scratched in with fingernails.

HarinWhat… is all this?

YeomunWords I carried over. Thirty years of 'em. And most of 'em… nobody ever believed.

HarinThen Rugar's words too… did you ever hear him?

YeomunThe Beast of Ruin… I never heard him once. The Compact Office never let me set foot in that yard, ya see.

YeomunThat's why I'm askin'. What did that beast… say to you?

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