In this chapter, we are introduced to a number of new characters, each of whom has a unique perspective on the world and its inhabitants. For example, in the opening scene of the novel, we see a group of soldiers marching through a village in the middle of the night. They are led by a young man, who tells the soldiers that he is the son of a nobleman and that he has come to help them defeat an army of wolves. The young man asks the nobleman if he would like to marry him, and the young man replies that he would love to marry the girl he loves. The nobleman tells him that the high priest has forbidden anyone to go to the village without the girl's permission, and that the girl is no longer at the village