A cure! I've found a cure! Friends, our valiant knight has been up and about today, and should very soon be setting out on his first adventure after his recent downfall. This is fantastic news. I'm trying to supress my excitement, and record events as faithfully and concisely as is my wont. The cure in question is a very simple one.

As I was walking around my master's gardens two days ago, I came to the place where his Peppermint grows, and duly bent down and smelt the fair fragrance that it exhales. As I was doing thus, I recollected the healing properties of the plant: especially that of aiding digestion. Now, our hero hasn't been suffering from physical indigestion, but a sort of indigestion of the mind. And using this logic, I thought I would brew up some of these leaves, in the hope that it would do something to avail my master's recent distress. And I wasn't wrong. No sooner had he sipped the fine cordial than his eyes lit up with that sharp intelligence of old, the colour came back to his cheeks after much too long an absence, and he untangled himself and arose from his sheets, and began to sing and dance around the room, finally settling himself down at his piano to play some of his most favourite pieces. In short, he has returned. I am delighted, and trust I haven't been too over-emotional in my dilligent recording of the events.

Kindest regards,

Your overjoyed squire.

P.S. This may not be the place, but: due to an uncharacteristic moment of negligence from none other than myself, some of you may notice a slight inconsistency in the chaptering system. Maybe not yet, but when we come to the fourth or fifth chapter, the error will be clearly apparent. I simply mistagged one of my previous reports, and thus when I came to have 8 posts in my "-Chapter 0010" tag, the reckoning was incorrect (there were actually nine that had been designated as being in the second chapter, but the incorrect one was tagged as "Chapter 0010" - missing out the initial "-"), and after endeavouring to correct the mistake, and shift one of the entries from the second to the third, I found that none could be moved, and the mistake will have to stay. It is regrettable, but cannot be helped. I apologise profusely. It will not happen again.

So began the Third Chapter.