The friendly old man invites Taran and Gurgi to come back to his home for some horse brutality – hospitality, that is. Taran offers to carry his buckets of clay for him, but soon finds the yoke unbearably heavy, and […]

Taran and Gurgi journey on into the Free Commots, where Taran continues to introduce himself only as “Taran Wanderer” and is glad that no one presses him for more information. He finds a smith named Hevydd laboring at his forge, […]