On a bitter winter night, our protagonist, the brave and innocent hero Pedro Zarquillo, couldn’t sleep. Between cold sweats and old nightmares, he woke. Somber, he reached over and switched on the desk lamp.
As he sifted through the stacks of papers he kept for his studies and research, he suddenly found an old manuscript he didn’t recognize. Startled, he moved to the living room and lit the fireplace to examine this mysterious document he’d stumbled upon so unexpectedly among the rest. It was a letter from the twelfth century: