"He didn't receive fair trial, was not torture and prison enough? Who shall lead..." questions Kip, fueled by righteousness,feeling more and more like a man.

"Aye lad, you're looking at him. Though in truth, it was supposed to be Leo. But family has taken precedence for him, so in his place is I," answers The Black Knight as he hand-signals the peasants to lift the wooden apparatus up from the ground.

They pull with all their famished might and Nicodemus ...