| Regaining consciousness was not easy, or sudden. I swam in and out of reality, and sometimes could not tell if I was really awake, or dreaming. But at all times there was the pain. The back of my head was a misery that never left me. I held fragmented recollections of the kindly old farmer who found me lying on the road amid six corpses, my horse standing fierce guard over me. With the help of his son, they calmed the noble beast and carried me to their croft to care for me. The day after my fall there had been riders from the Keep searching the road, and the old man, whose name was Cobb, had flagged them down. Soon, Brothers from the Keep had arrived with a wagon and old Master Fox to take me into their care. Before they had loaded me into the wagon, I had insisted on giving Cobb and his son the bag of gold coin I had received from the Chancellor. The ride back to our fastness was slow, and joltingly painful. Mercifully, I sank once more into oblivion, helped ...
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