"Walter?"
At that, Raleigh carefully took the wine glass from my hand, brought it to his own lips, and then said, taking something out of his pocket:
"Do you remember this knife?"
It was a shoe knife. Before I could answer, the sudden aching sensation in my body made it difficult to continue speaking.
In a way, it was a knife my body remembered.
"...Is it the knife that stabbed me?"
At those words, Raleigh nodded and said:
"And the knife that almost stabbed me. Do you remember?"
Step.
Taking one step closer, he showed me the shoe knife and said:
"You are the benefactor of my life."
==
He had many names.
The name given at birth and baptism was Walter Raleigh. A glorious name inherited from his ancestors.
The nickname received from the Queen as her lover was Water. A name obtained because she couldn't pronounce the 'l' in Walter well.
