Chapter 10 Summary

It takes Amadeo and Master four days to travel to Kiev. In everything they do and everything that happens, Marius points out the lesson in the situation to Amadeo. When they return to Kiev, Amadeo sees the city where he was and spent his boyhood in its new state. Where building once stood is now rubble. Where there once were no buildings there are a line of homes.

Amadeo and Marius go into the castle to spy on the noblemen. Then, they travel on to the Monastery of the Caves, which is the monastery that Amadeo lived in with the priests when he was a boy. While Amadeo watches the monks write out verses and create books, he searches for the boy that once lived and worked here but he cannot find him. Amadeo starts to weep and collapses into Master's arms.

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