It is dangerous to walk through parts of the English countryside because of the monsters that still live there, so Beatrice often asks Axl (who walks behind her) whether he’s still there. Beatrice agrees and, after talking to the pastor about their plan, they set out on their journey alone. Still, they are certain that he’s waiting for them and that they’ll be able to live with him when they get to his village. They have not seen their son in many years, and can’t remember the details of why he chose to leave or even his name. Axl thinks about a problem that everyone seems to be having: they forget things that they should remember, even their own children or people who once lived among them.įinally, Beatrice wakes up and Axl tells her that he’s decided they should go on a journey to their son’s village. As he waits, Axl thinks about their lives in the warren and wonders if they have always lived as societal outcasts, relegated to the back corners and treated with little to no respect. Axl is awake and excited about a decision he has just made, but decides to keep it to himself until Beatrice wakes up. They live alone in one of the back rooms, far away from the communal fire, and are not allowed to have candles. On the edge of one of the bogs found in the rural countryside, Axl and Beatrice, an elderly Briton couple, live together in a communal warren dug into a hillside. The narrator describes the landscape of England at the time of the story, with ogres haunting the forests and very few castles to be found.
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