Chapter 1, Elevator, Silence, Overweight | Chapter 2, Golden Beasts
• The narrator is in an elevator. He is not sure if the elevator is moving and there are no buttons to choose a floor, open the doors or make a call in an emergency.
• He compulsively counts the many coins in his pockets using both hands at the same time. Finally the doors open and a young, chubby woman barely audibly speaking a language he doesn't understand, leads him down a long, winding corridor into a room.
• Chapter 2 begins with the observation of the fact that the beasts have gotten a long layer of golden fur now that autumn is approaching.
• There is a Gatekeeper in the Town that blows a horn alerting the beasts that they are to leave the Town through the Gate for the night.
• The Gatekeeper was previously a blacksmith and keeps an arsenal of sharpened, hand-made...
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