The night face up Which two excerpts provide the best evidence that the story takes place in a historical setting?

a. Maybe the trail was very near, with the first daylight he would be able to see it again.

b. The war of the blossom had started at the beginning of the moon and had been going on for three days and three nights now.

c. “It smells of war,” he thought, his hand going instinctively to the stone knife which was tucked at an angle into his girdle of woven wool.

d. Laid next to the night from which he came back, the tepid shadow of the ward seemed delicious to him. A violet lamp kept watch high on the far wall like a guardian eye.

e. He was staked to the ground on a floor of dank, icy stone slabs. The cold bit into his naked back, his legs.