In this tale, the story tells of how Halt and Crowley first came to meet. Crowley's mentor was Pritchard who had recently been banished for a trumped-up charge of treason against the king. Crowley is in a tavern in the fief of Gorlan where he is confronted by Lord Morgorath's soldiers. They bully Crowley, the tavern owner, and Glyniss (the waitress, who is a little girl) when Halt steps out of the shadows and shoots one of the soldiers in the calf and the pair of them take out the rest.