““She understood his order. He refused her the use of weapons because he didn’t want the man to die cleanly. Randa wanted a bloody, anguished spectacle, and he expected her to furnish it. Katsa set out with Oll and a convoy of soldiers. When the soldiers caught the underlord, they dragged him to the square of the nearest village, where a scattering of startled people watched, slack jawed. Katsa instructed the soldiers to make the man kneel. In one motion she snapped his neck. There was no blood; there was no more than an instant’s pain. Most in the crowd didn’t even realize what had happened.””
