He's the strongest of the prison guards, so it comes as no surprise when the doctor asks for his help in removing the lieutenant's body. They've been calling him traitor in the streets, but he doesn't look dangerous, he merely looks young – no older than his own Peter, surely.
He waves away the flies that have already begun to swarm in this heat, one eye on the still, silent man in the chair.
Tonight the younger children will ask him what the dead man looked like, and he will answer, Not half so sad and terrible as the one yet living.