Cog:

What a surprise - I get all the dangerous bits, he gets all the easy bits. Of course that won't be how it's told when he gets all the publicity people and minstrels to puff it up when we get back. The songs he pays them to write about his glorious deeds don't even mention me carrying the baggage, let alone taking all the risks.

uh... what a surpise... er... he didn't mention this. Surely if he'd have known it was here he'd have pushed me in first...

In the Entrance Hall
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