The citizens recalled the days of the Marquis's rule, a memory both strange and familiar.
They wisely avoided mentioning the Knights' looting, for by the conventions of war, everything within a captured city that had refused to surrender belonged to the Knights.
They directed their accusations primarily at the Patulin Sect. They claimed the Sect had bewitched them and seized their property in God's name. They insisted that, under the Patulin Sect's intimidating influence and out of fear, they had been forced to kill innocent citizens who opposed them.
They pleaded with Eric, the God-guided Norman Knight and Earl of England, to grant them justice out of God's mercy. They begged him to pardon those who had erred out of helplessness and requested that, through the Power of the just and magnanimous Normans, the property seized from them by the Patulin Sect be returned.
