It still left the problem of whom to bring back as 'rebel leaders' for execution. If she could, Yarrow would just tell her sister and aunt that she had killed the leaders in Aeril -- that it was over and done with. Unfortunately, Anita and Leala were here -- so no stories of a vicious struggle ending with a necessary slaying, regardless what their orders were, could be spun.
So the two bellicas and the rebel leaders sat, trying to decide the impossible: who would be sent to die. Never mind the plan was to break out from the dungeons whomever they chose before the actual execution was to take place. There was still a chance that whoever was chosen would die, either by execution or in prison--or by any of the myriad dangers between here and that future date of death, especially Zardria's qu
