... Outside the window, rain rustled as usual for this time of year. Did not sleep. A strange privilege for the abbot of the temple of the Great Goddess to sleep on bare boards. But these are the rules and it's not for me to change them. For many millennia, all abbots have been sleeping on bare boards. No one remembers anymore, but in the annals it has not been preserved why this happened, and with what it is connected. Even during the period of the greatest power of the Great, according to the annals, bare boards were the privilege of only abbots...