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Of glorious battle wounds

Mario's wife / rolling-pin

Everybody, and their dog, knew that Mario could not see with his left eye. That was a common knowledge. The mystery eluding everyone was: how exactly he got blinded. Of course some assumed that he had been wounded while fending off some terrible foe. Others claimed that he acquired this wound while he was fulfilling the duty of his heritage. A few mumbled something about jealous husband, but no one paid heed to their words. The general consensus was that Mario had acquired his wound while performing a truly magnificent feat of some kind.

The gash that had deprived Mario of a part of his sight was created in much more prosaic, and not just a bit humiliating situation. There was a solid reason to why Mario's late wife had banned him from alcohol, and oddly enough from the kitchen. One may assume that it was due to alcohol inducted bouts of violence. No thing more untrue. Mario was not one of those violent drunks, who exchanged their brain for fists after first sip of vine. The lord on Monteriggioni was in fact a very helpful drunk, even if not exactly harmless. He was a living advertisement for the theory that well meaning and good intentions could, and in his case usually did, bring more harm than good. There were several major and more than a handful of minor incidents, that all of the inhabitants of Monteriggioni consequently denied.

Incidents? What incidents? They did not happened. Never.

No amount of property damage could convince them differently.

It was only after the onion incident that the lady on Monteriggioni had finally put her foot in. After all, what sane woman would remain unaffected if her husband had tried to chop an onion by throwing knives at it. Never mind the fact that he had somehow managed to get one to ricochet straight at him. As the word of lady Auditore was the law, Mario had been banned from both: her kitchen and alcohol under the threat of informing whole Italy just how exactly did he acquire that scar. Being the resourceful woman that she was she also managed to get the whole city to back her up. After all their lord was a menace when he could see straight, allowed to run freely half-blind he would be pure terror.