Chapter 24Sarony awoke to a consistent throbbing in the back of his skull. Placing his hand there, he realised that his head felt sore but he breathed a sigh of relief when he saw there was no blood. He attempted to recollect whatever it was that had knocked him senseless. The object had been heavy but no real damage had been done. Injury was something that scarcely concerned him but a heavy object dashed against his head was definitely enough to make it hurt. His mind beginning to clear, he remembered the strange woman and the name she’d called him. What was it? Gabriel. That was it. Obviously she had mistaken him for someone else. Blinking against the softest beam of flickering light from a candle in the draughty old house he realised with some shock that he’d been incarcerated in some k
