- Was it really all? she drawled in bewilderment. Venira and I were in a huge, by my standards, library of the estate, in which I spent almost non-stop all week.

“You've said that phrase twenty times in the last six days. You have in your hands the records of eyewitnesses of the Lithuanian-Maskinian war. Is that not enough for you? You don't believe in the diary of the aristocrat who managed to escape from Marner, either? In the end, the Maskin scrolls should have convinced you that this is all a real story, ”Venira said displeasedly.

“That's not the point, I just can't believe Marner managed to pull all...