The scarecrow surveyed the group of people in front of him. He decided not to take the couple the townspeople had tied up for him. Back in the day people came to him voluntarily to be sacrificed. Forcing strangers wasn't the same thing at all. He took the couple who sent innocents to him. As he watched the others scatter, he knew that it was all over for him. But, he was a god and he had a code of honor. And he had the satisfaction of knowing the town would die for not following the spirit of their arrangement.