The crowd went wild with excitement, the contagious energy in the air like a high voltage zinging through all the people, as all the remaining prisoners were brought out in chains, one after the other.
First came Pa Ladi and his ten delegates, paraded before the assembly as traitors of the empire. They hadn't anticipated this drastic turn of events and most of them regretted being used as pawns. Some of the men were crying and pleading to the king for mercy, but Pa Ladi remained unfazed until he laid on his first and only son restrained with other family members of his delegate.
It was at this point Pa Ladi joined in the chorus of mercy. Sadly, their plea fell on deaf ears and they were all silenced by the fierce whip of the angry soldiers.
