The hard individual will developed in him by his training in the Forest House demanded that he get free, that he get on with his journey, with what Zove had called man’s work. These people were not going anywhere, nor did they come from anywhere, for they had cut their roots in the human past. It was not only the extreme precariousness of his existence among the Basnasska that made him impatient to get out; it was also a sense of suffocation, of being cramped and immobilized, which was harder to endure than the bandage that blanked his vision.
