When Reality Crashes Down — Don Quixote

Sancho's body can keep a ledger even when his master keeps rewriting the story. Reaching Quixote after the blanket toss, he insists the tormentors were flesh and bone with names, not phantoms, and urges going home at harvest-time before misadventures leave them unsure which foot is which.

He tallies their record: one dubious victory over the Biscayan, half an ear and half a helmet lost, then cudgels, cuffs, blanketing, and enchanted Moors. Missing saddlebags nearly make him quit. After they eat and rest, Quixote takes two dust clouds for warring armies and delivers a battlefield speech.

Sancho hears only sheep bleating; Quixote hears trumpets and charges Alifanfaron. Shepherds stone him senseless, kill seven rams, and flee. Sancho curses the hour he met his master and finds him broken on the ground.