Year of the Boar, Eighth Month, Day 19.

It is difficult to know how to proceed. I could not find a way to stay in the House; the cook refused to let me stay and shortly after I had finished writing yesterday, she sent some servants to escort me out of the grounds. There was no way to avoid it without telling them who I was and I thought that if I did that, there was no guarantee that I would be believed. I thought it best not to be caught near the House walls since I had been told I must leave so I have walked west and I have sought shelter in a copse of trees. I will sleep here tonight and consider my options more fully when I wake; perhaps I shall be able to find Nanami's grandmother...