The timing of their disappearance is also important. Calie wonders whether they might return, but the Rabbit explains that they abandoned the village long before the Savage and…

The timing of their disappearance is also important. Calie wonders whether they might return, but the Rabbit explains that they abandoned the village long before the Savage and her master claimed those lands. He places their disappearance even earlier than the first creature crossing over from Calie’s world. So this is not simply another example of the current enemy driving people from their homes. The history reaches farther back. And there is a limitation to what the Rabbit knows. He says he would have liked to meet one. That keeps this from becoming an eyewitness account of Librum life. We are hearing what he knows about them while looking at what they left behind.