If you would like to buy the actual book and read the whole thing, you can find it published on Amazon in eBook and Paperback print. https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B09TF1PW1X Jakannes (Ja-kahn-z), an everyman farmer whose life has up to now been a series of repetitive tragic losses, has finally lost the last thing he never knew he had; hope. One night he meets a woman who claims to be immortal, and begrudgingly issues him directions on how to attain the same quality. In a last-ditch effort to find something to hold onto, Jakannes cannot help himself. He packs his essentials, saddles up his mule and journeys south-east through a landscape of growing political uncertainty and out into a wilderness of chill tundra, strange isolated towns, barbaric frontier lines, punishing natural features, and a skin-crawlingly enigmatic figure. A humanoid rat, who takes to an obsession with Jakannes, always asking what he "wants", and claiming to be on a "divine mission". A silent conflict broils between the two, making it ever more uncertain whether Jakannes will be able to reach his own destination successfully, let alone unharmed...