Geoffrey doesn't remember how he spent the following three or four years.
Many memories are blurry and chaotic, and when he tries to recall them, he only feels a drowning despair.
But he remembers that one day, he reunited with Roy.
The location seemed to be the manor of the Howard family, where he received an invitation from an old friend to have lunch together. It was certainly not a signal for reconciliation, but he went anyway.
Once close friends, now laughingly hung him on a tree, urging rabid dogs to bite him.
"If you can endure it for half an hour without begging," his friend said, "I will introduce you to the Great Mage of the Church Court. Maybe he can heal your sister, right?"
Geoffrey lowered his eyes to the familiar faces around him.
