A Single Shard

Tree-ear offers to take a creation of Crane Man's to the royal emissary far away. Min's wife agrees on two conditions.

The first is that you return to Ch‟ulp‟o quickly and safely. The journey is a difficult one, full of hazards, and nothing, not even a Royal Commission is worth the life of a young boy...The second condition is that from now on, you will call me Ajima.