Walking through a small village with circular mud huts Baudolino stops to describe Zosimos and ask a villager if he saw him. The villager frowns not understanding the language. Baudolino mimics a traveler walking and points at Boron’s beard in an attempt to describe Zosimos. The villager seems to understand and speaking in his own language nods affirmatively, mimics a big belly, points at a naked child playing in the dirt, then towards a hut. A young girl leans against the entrance of the hut and smiles flirtish at the pilgrims. This gets the villager angry who now asks the pilgrims, with ample body language, to pay for the damage caused by Zosimos who got his daughter pregnant. Baudolino gesticulates that Zosimos went by only a couple of months, not years. Meanwhile, Kyot seems to have been charmed by the girl and goes to talk with her. As other villagers are attracted by the argument, the Poet pulls the sword from the sheath, Baudolino gives the villager a coin, Abdul pulls Kyot away from the girl while the girl hangs on to him for him to stay. The pilgrims finally manage to get themselves out of the village in a hurry.