This autobiographical writing chronicles contracts performed by an Imperial assassin of the Dark Brotherhood, Cicero. Starting on the 8th day of Evening Star and following through until the 27th day of Rain's Hand, the journal was written by Cicero at the end of 4E 186 and rolls into the new year, into 4E 187 of the Fourth Era. Events written herein track Cicero's acceptance into the Dark Brotherhood Sanctuary in Cheydinhal, after the collapse of the Bruma Sanctuary. The book mentions the killing of a baroness, the physical absence of the Black Hand, and how it has affected the power scale of the Brotherhood, and Cicero's personal conflicts with Rasha, a Khajiiti Speaker. Also mentioned here are the presence of the last known Listener, a female Breton named Alisanne Dupre, her desire to re