Fair trial?
The knights looked at each other, committing such a grave crime, what is the most just trial could be? A hanging that leaves a complete corpse? Or stripping of titles and degrading to slavery?
A few confidants of Count Philip, associating themselves with their possible fate, were pale-faced and trembling, sweat beads rolled down their temples.
They didn't know if the Crown Prince was harmed.
To them, it didn't matter.
Because whether young Baldwin was dead or not, they were still guilty of dereliction of duty and potential involvement in the Crown Prince's murder, enough to send them to the gallows.
On the contrary, Count Philip, being a vassal of the German Emperor, as long as young Baldwin wasn't dead, the worst would be stripping him of rank and expulsion from Jerusalem.
Losa picked up the list, slowly speaking: "Rodel of Aachen, step forward, tonight you should have been patrolling the Midsummer Corridor, but you left only a soldier there..."
