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It all began with the knocking at the gate,’ Dorf explained to his son. “I remember it well. And evening some months before you were born. It was the end of a particularly hot day, and I’d no sooner swung the gate closed and locked the wheel into position that the knocking started up, loud enough to wake the dead.”
Ramon, who never tired of hearing the old man’s story, edged forward on his seat, eyes bright with anticipation. “What happened next?” he asked eagerly.
“My first instincts were to freeze,” Dorf resumed, “but as the knocking continued, I was soon impelled to investigate. As I reached for the door, a immense shiver went down my spine, from the thought of what I may soon be beckoned to. As I reached for the door, it swung open, there he was, in his shinny armor. I knew we’d be safe now, he was the amended Knight for the Job.

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Sixteen years we had been barred in that cage of a place. No help, no contact and complete isolation. The t...