Friedrich uses his vacation opportunity to visit the Limitlands to pursue his creative endeavors. Along the way inside his trekker-mobile, Friedrich stops to document the local flora, compose songs on his guitar and upload them to the music composer application, and type in his ideas for various inventions and stories.

Friedrich begins to feel sleepy and dozes off. He awakens to find the day has almost passed.
The vehicle has been drained of most of its power. Friedrich decides to look around on foot for a while to take in the scenery before initiating his rescue call.

As he is walking, Friedrich chances upon movement ahead in the swamp. A strange creature, a cross between a human and a large lizard, seems to be looking towards Friedrich's position but then disappears into the tangled environment. Unsettled, Friedrich reaches into his pack to get his large flashlight, thinking he might need to defend himself. Friedrich begins to run along the path to return to his vehicle.

Before he can make it back, the creature steps on to the path ahead of Friedrich. The lizard-man gestures to Friedrich, and the gesture appears to communicate the intention of friendship.

"You may call me Tendon," the creature begins. "What was the value of your activities in your vehicle before you fell asleep?"

Tendon has Friedrich follow him off the path, saying "Let me show you a place where I often consider my fate. There is another race like mine and the two races are unfortunate enemies. We had better begin now to get there before the Boars learn too much of our intentions. The one thing the Boar race has in common with my own is that we were created to offset the planetary dominion of intelligent machines by maintaining the presence of a free-thinking and -living biology in the swamps. We are both shape-shifters. I have perpetrated evil against this other race and they are not quick to befriend again their attackers."

Tendon and Friedrich walk until dark with little further said and little incident.