Brillow woke up early in the morning. He stretched and looked out his prison window. Despite the time of day, a lot of people were hurrying about, trying to get things done before the sun came up and the temperature rose like a candy wrapper in an up draft. Then he saw a sight he didn't expect to see, and the answer to his problem. He called over to Stan, but he didn't hear. He picked up a small stone that was by Brillow's bed and threw it at him.
"Ow," Stan said, rubbing his head. He looked over at Brillow and ran over there. "Hey, buddy. Sorry you're in here." He stood on his toes to see a clear view inside the cell.
"Yah, yah, save the chit chat. I need you to get me some things…" Brillow went on with a list, and Stan tried to remember all of them. "… Got it?"
"Yah, but I don't get it. Why do you need those things?"
The sound of the guards marching down the hall started. "No questions, just do it!" He shoved Stan away. Brillow turned around and the guards were just arriving in front of the cell. They unlocked the door and let Brillow out. They walked down the hall and out into the desert for another long, hot day of searching for nothing.
Lysander watched the sun rise from his second story room at the inn. He sighed when he thought about leaving Brillow and Fruma and how they would probably end up being executed. He had not heard from Brillow since Brillow's trial. He wondered what happened to him. Then he thought about Stan and how none of this would have happened if Stan wasn't here. Just then, he saw Stan walking down the street with a handful of items.
Lysander quickly jumped out of his chair and ran down stairs and out onto the street to meet Stan. "What do you have there? And why?" Lysander said to Stan.
Stan looked up and smiled. "Hey, you've gotten out of jail! Unfortunately Brillow didn't." This news didn't make Lysander happy. "But I haven't heard anything about Fruma," Stan continued.
"She has her trial today," said Lysander. "We should watch it."
"No," Stan said, "I have to deliver these things to Brillow by lunch time. He said he needed them for a project he was working on."
"Well Ok then. I will let you go on your merry way." Lysander started to walk away but Stan yelled out.
"I am not in any hurry now. I have most of the things I need. We could have breakfast or something."
Lysander thought about it. "Actually I am kind of full from the free breakfast the inn supplied." He lied.
"Oh that's OK. I was just trying to be polite. I am not hungry either," said Stan. The way he said made Lysander think Stan was lying. As Stan walked away, Lysander couldn't help but feel bad of what he had just done to Stan.
Fruma sat in her cell thinking about ways she could fool the court into making them think she was innocent. She couldn't think of any good lies to tell them. She also thought about profusely vomiting all over the place, which would make them schedule another trial, but not find her innocent. She finally concluded that she would act like a crazy person.
The guard came to take her to her trial and when they opened the door she said in a soft whimsical voice, "It's nice to see you are letting all the pretty birdies out of their cages today." She looked up and pretended to watch birds fly away.
She entered the courtroom and said, "All hail your queen, the Queen of England!" Some of King Hassan's advisors laughed.
However, King Hassan did not think it was funny. "Sit down!" he commanded. His advisors stopped laughing immediately.
"Do you kiss your mother with that mouth?" Fruma questioned. She went over to the table and picked up the glass of water provided at every court session, and drank all of the water in less then five seconds. When she was done she let the glass go, and it smashed on the ground.
King Hassan was affronted by the comment and her ability to drink water so fast. "It appears that you are not mentally stable enough for this courtroom much less society." Fruma began to smile. Her plan was working. "Therefore you will be shipped to the Dwarven Correctional Mines." And in a flash, her plan backfired and her smile faded. The guard handed her a pick ax and a helmet.
She dropped the pick ax and ran up to the table were King Hassan and his advisors sat and cried out, "I am sane! I am the most sane person you will ever meet!"
King Hassan leaned forward and his expression changed. "You look familiar. You look like that person who they claim burned down Rimmington." The advisors gasped. Fruma's mouth hung open. She didn't know what to say. The guards took her by the shoulder and dragged her away from the table.
She was dragged into the courtyard, where Brillow was bringing his constructed bug corpse that Stan supplied the supplies for, and also Lysander was coming to watch Fruma's trial.
Out of anger, she took the pick ax from on of the guard's hands and hacked it into a guard's back. After the other guards in the vicinity saw that their voices rang out, "Brother! We will help thee in your time of infidel!" Then guards came swinging in from the balcony and appeared behind pillars. Soon, they formed a circle around the three people. Fruma picked up the sword the dead guard carried and threw it to Brillow.
"Hey, don't give me this; I am just about to become free." But it was too late, the guards charged at the three. Fruma hacked away with her pick ax, her mining helmet was protecting her from blows to the head, Brillow was struggling through his fight, and Lysander took out his war hammer and started bashing people's skulls. Blood flew everywhere, but no matter how hard the three of them worked, the number of soldiers didn't seem to diminish.
Then, from out of nowhere, arrows started flying and making guards collapse. In between hits, Brillow tried to see where the arrows were coming from, but he couldn't see anybody. Soon the soldiers blocking the exit were gone and Stan stood with his bow and arrows telling the three of them to come on.
The three of them ran out of the courtyard and followed Stan to a horse which stood in the middle of the street. Without hesitation, the four of them climbed on the horse and rode away. The soldiers stopped pursuing them when they reached the out skirts of the city. From there, Stan, Brillow, Lysander and Fruma rode north to the Wilderness, were they became a gang and attacked unwary noobs.