Watch Duty at the High Meadow Tower
Since I always volunteer and no one else likes my friend Ulric and because he is young and weird, me and Ulric and Imarjan had early morning watch duty the day after the Harvest Feast. I rode out on Pony, who got an extra apple so he was happy. It was quiet for a while. Me and Imarjan played tic-tac-toe. But around lunch Ulric spotted a monster swimming upriver. Imarjan rang the alarm. Lickety-split it came out of the water and tried to eat Ulric, biting him on the leg. I hit it in the head with one of Hedkoranth's Stones, but the scaly thing kept going. It made me mad that this monster wanted to eat Ulric, so I did a Big Jump, grabbed it by the tail, lifted it up and smashed its head in like a kid would with a rat. This thing was much bigger than that, of course. The riding watch heard the alarm and came, and we took Ulric back to the stead to be healed.
