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Life is a struggle and ultimately it must be lost. Death conquers all. To live at all is to fight, and struggle against the odds. To be valiant is to fight for honour and love. It is to defy pain, exhaustion, sorrow, adversity and doubt, refusing to yield until the bitter end. Battered and wounded, Odo Paganus battles on against the insuperable enemy. He is sustained by the spirit of knighthood and by righteous rage.

The Gargers assail him just as relentlessly, driven by the blackest hate. They know that they are a superior species and that their superior numbers must soon overwhelm this stubborn foe; even though no single man has caused such injury to their kind in all their collective memory. Soon they will bring him down and be avenged. They will pull off his armour and mutilate his flesh. Then they will take his women, and when they are through with them they will hang his corpse in the fair prisoners' cell. It will be an additional torment- a reminder of the futility of resisting the Gargers. The putrefying body of the damsels' would-be champion will make the underworld air viler still for them. His body, that is, but not Odo's blond head, for that the Gargers will take south and hurl into Sulisas, the city of the knights. Thus they will announce to his people the fate of their bold commander.

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Life is a struggle and ultimately it must be lost. Death conquers all. To live at all is to fight, and struggle against the odds. To be valiant is to fight for honour and love. It is to defy pain, exhaustion, sorrow, adversity and doubt, refusing to yield until the bitter end. Battered and wounded, Odo Paganus battles on against the insuperable enemy. He is sustained by the spirit of knighthood and by righteous rage.

The Gargers assail him just as relentlessly, driven by the blackest hate. They know that they are a superior species and that their superior numbers must soon overwhelm this stubborn foe; even though no single man has caused such injury to their kind in all their collective memory. Soon they will bring him down and be avenged. They will pull off his armour and mutilate his flesh. Then they will take his women, and when they are through with them they will hang his corpse in the fair prisoners' cell. It will be an additional torment- a reminder of the futility of resisting the Gargers. The putrefying body of the damsels' would-be champion will make the underworld air viler still for them. His body, that is, but not Odo's blond head, for that the Gargers will take south and hurl into Sulisas, the city of the knights. Thus they will announce to his people the fate of their bold commander.