"What happened... It was a calamity! I was going about my business, and then I fell ill. Cut down by a fever.

"What happened... It was a calamity! I was going about my business, and then I fell ill. Cut down by a fever. I'd been burning up for three weeks. I thought I would die more than once. A local merchant saved me... a kind soul, damn him. He saved me, but not for free. Took everything I had as payment – even my precious work tools, the last of my treasures!"