Lek wiped the tears from his eyes and spotted the bouquet he had gotten for Pinja. It had gone wrong from the beginning- when he brought her flowers. What a terrible person Jack had to be to have made Pinja be afraid of flowers.

Lek picked up the flowers, tore them, threw them back down and ground them under his feet. He wished he could so easily kill those who hurt Pinja. Because of Jack and his people Pinja had suffered, was still suffering and had a baby on the way. And because she had been hurt so badly she would not accept his proposal.

Lek wanted to kill all of those men who hurt women. He and Ertzel had killed a man once, but it was not on purpose, they had only been defending themselves. Lek wanted to know how to kill evil men. He wiped some more tears from his face and walked outside, hoping to find someone who could teach him that.

Shawn had found the perfect spot to build his farm, now it was just a matter of speaking with Wulfsen to claim it. He hummed softly as he headed for the main building and to his wife. He wanted nothing more than to hold her closely.

Lek slammed into his uncle.

"Ooof!" The air left Shawn in a rush and he barely managed to not topple over.

"Uncle Shawn! Quick! I need to learn how to kill people." Lek said urgently.

Shawn stared at his nephew for a moment. "Lek, it is not something you learn quickly, nor is it something you want to learn unless you are a knight or guard," Shawn advised.

"I want to kill Jack. I want to kill all those men who hurt Pinja. I want to kill all men who hurt women like that." Lek said furiously.

"Jack isn't going to last the night, not the condition he was brought back in. I believe the knights said the remaining raiders were already killed." Shawn sighed. "It's a noble desire Lek, but there's far too many men who act this way to kill them all. And if you're not a knight or a guard, and you kill them when they aren't actually harming anyone, you'd find yourself in the dungeon." Shawn thought for moment. "Perhaps you could speak with Wulfsen or Xavier in regards to becoming a knight. You would be trained."

Lek clenched his fists. "Fine, I'll become a knight or whatever so I can kill those kinds of people... What do I have to do to be executioner? I want to make sure Jack doesn't live much longer if I can help it."

"An executioner generally works his way up from being able to kill in battle and being cold and unfeeling about it," Shawn explained. "A person can't just decide to be an executioner. Just imagine if they could and when the time came for the first execution, they are unable to perform the job or their conscience drives them mad."

"After what Jack did to Pinja I wouldn't feel bad at all if I got to kill him." Lek said.

"I agree with you on that, but the executioner also doesn't get to kill just one person and then leave," Shawn said. "And despite your anger, you're not a killer at heart, Lek."

"I can be!" Lek exclaimed. "I killed a man before!"

"And you carried guilt for quite a long time after doing so. And that was to protect your cousin, Lek."

"This will be to protect Pinja and other women!" Lek said. "And to avenge her."

"Coming from a place of vengeance can destroy you."

"It's all I have left to do for her." Lek said. "I wanted to court her sooner... But she was already traumatized by what Jack did I thought in time she would see I could be trusted... But we weren't given enough time and now Jack and people like him hurt her even more." Lek kicked the wall. "Now it's too late. All I have left is to kill Jack and to kill every man like him until the world is safe."

"Oh, Lek, just a noble desire but you'll never rid the world of them completely. But..if you train to be a knight, you can help protect the ladies from the mermen."

"I think I need to learn to fight even more than I need a shield." Lek said.

"You would have to start as a page or squire, work hard and work your way up. You wouldn't be a knight immediately."

"That could take years!" Lek cried. "By then a lot of bad men could have hurt a lot of women."

"At times of battle, everyone fights," Shawn pointed out. "If you put your mind to it and do well, you could progress faster than you think."

"You know how to fight but you're not a knight." Lek pointed out.

"It's different. I already knew how to fight and I wanted to just protect the village. For what you want to do, you need to be a knight."

"But you protected people, you fought and even killed bad guys." Lek said.