Gunther is on the back porch watching the warriors prepare for battle. He has come to realize that there is no way out of the war today. Regardless of what he says, there is no way out of it. Gunther is scared to fight Shemar because he knows that Sherrod was the best of the best swordsmen. People said that he didn't train becasue he was a natural. Gunther fears that Shemar is also a natural and as dangerous as Sherrod was.
He's thinking back to the night Marla took Sherrod's head. She had to drug his wine to take his head. Gunther regrets not fighting Sherrod. If he had known that when anyone who isn't an immortal behinds an immortal, the quickening doesn't pass to another immortal, he would have fought Sherrod. Gunther has often wondered what happened to all the quickenings that Sher
