Jamie tells her that Claire is gone, and asks Jenny not to speak her name to him again. When Jamie arrives at Lallybroch he is half-conscious and mostly dead from fever. The journey back to Lallybroch takes two days, and Jamie is fevered or chilled the entire way. Despite Jamie pleading that he just wants to die, Hal sends him to Lallybroch hidden under hay in the back of a wagon. When Hal realizes that Jamie is the man who spared his brother John's life, he decides that he must honor John's debt and cannot kill Jamie. Two days later, a group of English soldiers, led by Major Hal Grey, find the men in the farmhouse and tell them they will all be shot for treason. He knows that Murtagh is dead, but doesn't remember how he died. Jamie has no memory of the battle or how Randall came to be lying on top of him. He is found by four of his men and taken to a farmhouse, but his leg is badly wounded from a bayonet and he knows he will die. He manages to wriggle out from underneath Randall and then loses consciousness. Jamie wakes on Culloden Field on April 16, 1746, with a dead Jack Randall lying on top of him.
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