Chapter three
Concerning fish headsThere are some experiences in one’s life one may look back on with some reasonably successful attempts at equanimity. All the times you acted like a fool. The times you did things which afterward you wished you had not done, or had done differently.
And there are some occasions you do not wish to recall at all.
Deliberately, I have left out many and many a fight I went through on Kregen, in these accounts, for Kregen is not a world like this Earth. It is hard and cruel, as well as brilliant and beautiful. There men are more often less tolerant of weakness. Some fights I shall never record.
Of that fight in Ovvend Barynth as we struggled against these monstrous leem lovers from around the curve of the world I will say but little. Oh, it is not because
