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"Reason for Surrender" is certainly interesting for the fact that this time, we effectively do not follow the protagonist - the porcupine - very much. She is the focaliser at the beginning and end of the story, with small interludes, but the real protagonist here is the middle-aged lady from a mountain village that brings her to the Wild Animal rescue department after having raised her; love, displacement, care.

"To Walk These Lands" follows a june bug as it first transforms, leaves, becomes displaced, gives in to temptation of lamps. Thematically interesting, but this time the fact that we 'guess' the thoughts, feelings or the state of the protagonist animal felt a little too much - there was only asking, even as it did highlight that you never how many displaced there are around you, or what they might feel.