It begins at dusk on the 14th Day of the Moon of the Spider,Year of the Spider, Star of the Cock

Here, days away from the town once called Uvae there is an abandon Silk farm. The mulberry trees grow thick with the cocoons of untended silk worms, drawing the small black and the odd three winged birds that feed on them. The farm has been abandoned sometime in the last several moons, and there are signs of fighting and looting, but, as is often seen at the battle sites of this war, there are no bodies. The small camp of Refugees and soldiers has grown larger over the last few days…