I could not walk so far, so I did not see the scene which awaited the party
of brothers and stratioti who returned to the Spring, but Brother Anders
told me about it: a brief search of the woods turned up two arms without
hands and two legs without feet; Anders was unfortunate enough to find Gig's
head balanced on top of a boulder just off the path. He had never seen such
an expression on a human face, he said, and never wanted to again. But more
than that, he prayed that he would never have to see what that face was
looking at. Brother Anders' hair was white the next morning.
I never saw the head or the rest of the body, but I believe I'd seen the
look that Brother Anders described. And Gig was looking
at me.
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