Yazdgird Silk is the sort of Afghan who is long coated, longer eyed, and full of inherited quiet. There is a small notebook Yazdgird Silk carries, half theories about the sleeping machine rooms and half crumbs. Council elders use Yazdgird Silk as the example whenever someone asks what loyal looks like in practice. Somewhere under the noise, Yazdgird Silk carries one promise made to the swamp shrine and means to keep it quietly.