“To write with the black stuff is to create and. at the same time, to resurrect.”

If civilizations can be eradicted or ruined so easily, even if their stories cannot be preserved, they should be “released and cycled.” Straka communicates the idea that people write the stories of “what those who’ve come before us wrote.” By word of mouth, traditions and the storytelling of the ancestors in a civilizations, people are able to preserve their history and identity even if everything else is lost.

Eric points to the line, “Everything rewritten. Part o’ the tradition,” as , “another possible place where FXC took over.” Eric may be right because in the next paragraph, S discovers that he no longer cares about Vevoda. He understands that “when Vevoda dies, someone else will take his place. When S. dies, someone else will take his place.” In the never ending cycle of the battle against evil in the world, an enemy will always rise, committing horrific crimes and sins, and people will always attempt to resist. Uncharacteristic of S’s previous feelings toward Vevoda, this passage was probably written by FXC.

Shaken by his new discovery, S rushes to meet Sola to tell her about his thoughts. He runs toward her sounds, stumbling in the dark as he reaches a sudden drop in the cellar.