Things went on as usual. Stephan trained and the white lion kept his eyes on the villagers, not allowing anyone to come close to the outsider. There was a reason for that: the diary he received from the receptacle was clear. The future Stephan wished to train to prepare for what was coming and also to not grow fond of a child there.
'There is only one purpose for this long unending setting; it's to destroy him completely, to make him grow fond of others and learn to trust and then shatter it all. She would throw warm people at him and let him get closer to them and then cause them to be killed. He wished to not know about these things this way.'