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| - Shortly after the survivors' escape from the sacked monastery, Ebenezer and Castimir ignited one of Thorbarkin's bombs and threw it at the Kinshra that had gone in pursuit. It detonated and the explosion killed many soldiers and knocked many more off their horses, allowing the party to escape. Gaius's horse was killed by the blast and fell on top of him. He himself had been injured as well and took of his helmet to tend to his wounds. On Doric's advice, Squire Theodore took Gaius as his prisoner to find out the Kinshra's plans, although the soldier weakly begged him for mercy. After his armour was removed, Gaius was put on a Kinshra horse and rode toward Falador with Ebenezer, who prevented all escape attempts by using magnesium and potassium to make Gaius think he was a powerful wizard, instilling him with fear. Upon arrival in Falador, Gaius was incarcerated in the White Knights' dungeons. A couple of days later, Sir Finistere, concealed by darkness, arrived at night with fruit and meat for the prisoner. He told Gaius that he would help him break out soon and that he needed him to convey a message to Lord Sulla, to which Gaius smiled. The next night, Finistere returned with more food, they key to his cell and the key to the guards' room and told Gaius that he would need to count to hundred ten times after the watch change, leave his cell, put on the messenger clothing in the guards' room, the message for Sulla in the satchel, kill the drugged guard there, follow a guide to the stables and ride the horse waiting for him out of the city. The next night, Gaius acted as Finistere had told him, although he stopped counting a bit earlier. After escaping to the stables, the stable boy brought him to a saddled brown mare, which had been moved. Upon leaving White Knights' Castle, he told the second guard he encountered on the bridge that he was to deliver another message in Burthorpe, after which he was able to ride to the city's north gate. Meeting no resistance from the guards there, he triumphantly laughed as he rode out of the city.
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