The Ridiculed Drifter

For twenty long years, a drifting traveler was a ghost haunting the frost-bitten roads of nineteenth-century Europe. Known only as "the red dog," he lived as a hunted fugitive, dragging a crippled knee and the suffocating weight of an unpaid debts. His life was a dark journey of survival—sleeping in frozen brick kilns, dodging relentless trackers, and hardening his heart against a world that offered no mercy.