A formidable figure known as the Supreme returns hoping for a peaceful life, only to face contempt. At his wedding, he summons nine war gods who address him as their master. Their arrival exposes the gulf between his true standing and the dismissive assumptions of those around him.
Humiliated by his wife and her family, Leon Wolf is expelled after she becomes pregnant by another man. At a cemetery, he intervenes in an attack on Iris Young and is stabbed before falling into a river with an assailant. Iris leaves believing he may be dead, while a voice beneath the water suggests otherwise.
8.4