"I'm falling, and I hear something crack. Did I break a bone?! No, it was the spear. I fell across the shaft,

"I'm falling, and I hear something crack. Did I break a bone?! No, it was the spear. I fell across the shaft, practically sitting on it, and it snapped. The bandit attacks, his bludgeon spinning overhead. Terrified, I crawl under the cart. Members of the caravan are being slaughtered around me like cattle. It was an evil hour when they chose to trust me, Vu Balak, a sham guide, a drunkard, and a sad coward who inadvertently led them all straight into a bandit ambush..."