The knight nodded and hurried off to get the items Wulfsen had asked for. He wasted no time and handed them off to Wulfsen.

Wulfsen then the quill and parchment at Mazi. "Draw the map."

Mazi painstakingly drew a detailed map. He blew on it to dry the ink. "If I give this to you, you won't kill me for imitating Nelek?"

"I won't kill you for imitating Nelek." Wulfsen said. He wasn't lying but he knew of other offenses to execute Mazi for.

Mazi handed over the map.

"What do I have to give to get a woman in here with me?" He asked.

Wulfsen snatched up the map. "There's nothing you can give us that we'd let you abuse another woman."

Wulfsen glanced at the map, it looked legitimate. He knew some of those islands, but the one Mazi had marked... "This island is inaccessible, there's a reef all around it."

"We don't need ships." Mazi said.

He reached through the bars and grabbed Mazi by the throat. He began violently bashing Mazi's head on the bars. He was changing, filling out with more muscle and his hair was turning blond.

"I don't think we're going to get the chance to execute him. I suddenly wish we had a cannon in here."

"Damn it!" Wulfsen swore. "Stop him." Wulfsen ordered his men and turned to Xavier. "We have to be the ones to kill him, otherwise that bastard won't get the message that we will kill him if he doesn't cooperate."
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The knights clearly felt outmatched. They hurried over, drawing their swords. "Release him and step back!" the head knight demanded.

In reply to Wulfsen Thornblade (msg # 329):

"I wish we had a weapon that could be used from  a distance. Good thing we didn't let Mrs. Buckley did this." Xavier pulled a throwing dagger and looked for a clear shot.

He stopped banging Mazi's head on the bars and now was trying to break his neck. "I'm killing the traitorous wretch. He spent too much time on dry land."

Wulfsen handed the map to one of the knights. The other merman clearly was going to kill Mazi in a second. He unlocked Mazi's cell and strode inside. He sunk his axe into Mazi's guts.

"That's for raping Ila." Wulfsen said coldly. "And trying to abduct Millicent Buckley."

He did not expect them to really kill Mazi. He dropped Mazi. But instead of stepping back he charged for the cell door.

Xavier hurled his throwing knife at Tabor. He didn't know if it would work, he was like a raging bull at the moment. He motioned for the knights to fire some crossbow bolts at him.

"Take out his legs!" Wulfsen shouted, pulling the axe from Mazi's belly.

The knights each fired their crossbows, the bolts heading straight for Tabor's knees.

He hit the stone floor hard. "Damn you!"

Mazi slumped on his knees, his life painfully ebbing out through his hands. He could not believe he was dying like this.

Wulfsen thought about Ila and considered leaving Maxi like that, but he knew he couldn't live with himself if he let someone die slowly like that. He raised the axe and brought it down hard on the back of Mazi's neck.

Xavier stood silently his sword still at the ready. Part of his attention was on the other merman.

Wulfsen picked up Mazi's head and carried it out of the cell. He showed it to the other merman.

"You had best cooperate with us or your head will be rolling on the ground too." Wulfsen said and ordered his men out of Tabor's cell.

The knights left the cell. "What do you want us to do with the body?"

"Take it outside and burn it." Wulfsen said. He threw some rags into the surviving merman's cell, and a bucket of water. "You can patch yourself up, I'm not putting my medic at risk for you."