Lapvona

Life returns to Lapvona after the rainfall. The people pack up their possessions and return to their homes, willfully forgetting the acts of cannibalism they engaged in to survive and ignoring the deaths of half their population. Villiam sends them so-called gifts of grain and fruit as a celebration, but he adds the cost of these items to their taxes so that he can turn a profit in the long run. Feeling like a ruined man, Jude does not return to Lapvona, choosing instead to live as a vagabond in Ina’s old cave. Ina, by contrast, does return to the village as a medicine woman. She creates tinctures that she claims will return fertility but that are actually made from her urine. Strangely, she has two huge new eyes and can now see; though no one else knows it, the eyes came from Dibra’s horse. Ina feels she has been reborn and is no longer interested in communicating with the birds, choosing to fully integrate into village life.

Marek spends every night in Agata’s bed, but she never shows him any care or attention. Unbeknownst to him,